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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
581c785b 2Copyright (C) 1992-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
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a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.35
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10Major new features:
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12* Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
13 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
14 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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16* Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
17 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
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19* Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
20 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
21 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
22 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
23 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
24 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
25 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
26 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
27 glibc, and must be installed.
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29* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
30 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
31 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
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33 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
34 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
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36 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
37 fMxfmafNx functions.
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39* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
40 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
41 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
42 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
43 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
44 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
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46* <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
47 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
48 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
49 M_SQRT1_2f.
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51* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
52 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
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54* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
55 macro in <tgmath.h>.
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57* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
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59* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
60 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
61 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
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63* A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
64 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
65 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
66 object dependency cases.
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68* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
69 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
70 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
71 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
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73* ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
74 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
75 return value is only used for its boolean status.
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77* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
78 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
79 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
80 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
81 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
82 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
83 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
84 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
85 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
86 Restartable Sequences.
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88* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
89 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
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91* All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
92 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
93 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
94 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
95 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
96 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
97 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
98 configuration.
99
5f6d8d97 100* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
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101 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
102 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
103 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
104 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
105 huge pages.
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107* The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
108 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
109
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110* The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
111 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
112 address.
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114* Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
115 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
116 ABI is supported:
117
118 - or1k-linux-gnu
119
120 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
121 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
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123* A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
124 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
125 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
126 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
127 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
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129* On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
130 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
131
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132Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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134* On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
135 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
136 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
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138* The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
139 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
140
141 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
142 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
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144 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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146* Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
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148* The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
149 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
150 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
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152* The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
153 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
154 catching coredumps and backtraces.
155
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156Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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158 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
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160Security related changes:
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162 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
163 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
164 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
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166 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
167 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
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169 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
170 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
171 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
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173 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
174 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
175 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
176 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
177 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
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179The following bugs are resolved with this release:
180
181 [The release manager will add the list generated by
182 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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185Version 2.34
186
187Major new features:
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189* In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
190 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
191 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
192 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
193 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
194 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
195 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
196 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
197 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
198 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
199 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
200 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
201 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
202 potentially exposing application bugs.
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204* When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
205 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
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206 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
207 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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209* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
210 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
57fb02b2 211 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
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212 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
213 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
214 Arm SVE.
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216* The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
217 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
218 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
219
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220* On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
221 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
222 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
223 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
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225* The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
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227* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
228 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
229 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
230 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
231 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
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233* On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
234 --disable-scv configure option.
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236* Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
237 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
238 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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239 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
240 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
241 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
242 version of 5.1.
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244* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
245 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
246 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
247 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
248 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
249 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
250 that directory.
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252* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
253 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
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255* The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
256 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
257 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
258 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
259 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
260 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
261 is currently a GNU extension.
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263* On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
264 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
265
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267 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
268 although it is also present in other systems.
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270* The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
271 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
272 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
273 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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275* When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
276 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
277 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
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279* The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
280 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
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282Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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284* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
285 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
286 instead.
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288* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
289 programs should use the equivalent standard function
290 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
291
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292* The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
293 programs should use the equivalent standard function
294 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
295
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296* The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
297 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
298
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299* The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
300
301* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
302 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
303 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
304 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
305 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
306 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
307 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
308 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
309 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
310 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
311 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
312
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313* Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
314 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
315 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
316 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
317 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
318 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
319 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
320 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
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322* The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
323 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
cfdaa29f 324 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
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325 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
326 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
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327 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
328 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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330* Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
331 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
332 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
333 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
334 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
335 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
336 upgrade or downgrade process.
337
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338* The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
339 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
340 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
341
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342* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
343 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
344 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
345 no longer have any effect on malloc.
346
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347* Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
348 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
349 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
350 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
351 this functionality back.
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353* The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
354 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
355 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
356 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
357
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358* The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
359 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
360 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
361 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
362 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
363 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
364 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
365 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
366 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
367
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368Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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370* On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
371 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
372 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
373 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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375Security related changes:
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377 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
378 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
379 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
380 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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382 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
383 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
384 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
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386 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
387 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
388 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
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390The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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392 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
393 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
394 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
395 given integer (closefrom)
396 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
397 name containing multi-byte character(s)
398 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
399 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
400 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
401 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
402 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
403 random thread
404 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
405 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
406 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
407 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
408 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
409 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
410 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
411 manual is incorrect
412 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
413 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
414 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
415 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
416 pthread_create and dlopen
417 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
418 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
419 when non-root user changes priority
420 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
421 dlopen
422 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
423 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
424 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
425 ordered correctly
426 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
427 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
428 data.
429 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
430 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
431 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
432 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
433 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
434 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
435 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
436 the right free implementation
437 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
438 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
439 shm_open to pick wrong directory
440 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
441 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
442 protector=all)
443 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
444 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
445 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
446 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
447 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
448 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
449 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
450 uninitialized
451 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
452 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
453 system calls
454 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
455 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
456 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
457 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
458 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
459 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
460 deployments
461 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
462 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
463 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
464 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
465 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
466 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
467 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
468 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
469 is present
470 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
471 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
472 protector=all
473 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
474 information for the current directory
475 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
476 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
477 dl_runtime_resolve_*
478 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
479 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
480 containers
481 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
482 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
483 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
484 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
485 INT_MAX
486 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
487 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
488 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
489 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
490 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
491 tries resolving them lazily
492 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
493 libthread_db
494 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
495 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
496 argument
497 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
498 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
499 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
500 not set ENOMEM
501 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
502 randomization
503 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
504 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
505 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
506 IS_ERR_VALUE
507 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
508 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
509 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
510 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
511 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
512 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
513 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
514 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
515 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
516 with n >= 0x80000000
517 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
518 thread never allocated anything
519 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
520 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
521 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
522 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
523 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
524 on older kernels
525 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
526 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
527 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
528 AMD64 cpus
529 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
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535Major new features:
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537* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
538 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
539 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
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542 to change argv[0] string.
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544* The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
545 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
546 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
547 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
548 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
549 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
550 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
551 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
552 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
553
554* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
555 information and library search path diagnostics.
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558 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
559 larger than fit in an integer.
560
96203980 561* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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563* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
564 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
565
566 - rv32imac ilp32
567 - rv32imafdc ilp32
568 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
569
570 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
571 2.28.
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574 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
575 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
576 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
577 fortification.
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582 mallinfo2 instead.
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585 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
586 Instead, the default implementation is used.
587
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589 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
590 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
591 prlimit.
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594 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
595 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
596
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598 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
599 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
600 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
601 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
602 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
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605 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
606 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
607 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
608 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
609 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
610 loaded.
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615 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
616 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
617 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
618 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
619 perform any adjustments.
620
621* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
622 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
623 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
624 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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629
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934c48a0 631 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
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633 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
634 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
635
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636 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
637 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
638 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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641 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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644 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
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649 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
650 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
651 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
652 AT_EACCESS
653 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
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655 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
656 "haswell" platform subdirectory
657 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
658 with GCC
659 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
660 stack-protector=all
661 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
662 cases
663 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
664 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
665 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
666 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
667 changing gnuc version
668 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
669 incorrect
670 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
671 bits
672 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
673 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
674 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
675 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
676 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
677 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
678 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
679 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
680 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
681 too much stack space
682 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
683 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
684 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
685 with optimization.
686 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
687 anymore
688 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
689 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
690 non-FMA4 system
691 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
692 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
693 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
694 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
695 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
696 getaddrinfo
697 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
698 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
699 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
700 fault
701 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
702 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
703 at the end of a memory mapping
704 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
705 by the caller to the kernel
706 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
707 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
708 declarations for __sigsetjmp
709 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
710 monotonic clocks
711 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
712 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
713 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
714 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
715 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
716 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
717 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
718 one element
719 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
720 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
721 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
722 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
723 lazy bound
724 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
725 PI mutexes
726 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
727 not safe
728 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
729 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
730 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
731 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
732 platform
733 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
734 startup code
735 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
736 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
737 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
738 protected
739 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
740 only since 2.31
741 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
742 locked
743 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
744 aligned
745 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
746 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
747 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
748 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
749 detection logic
750 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
751 pclose(3))
752 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
753 setup
754 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
755 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
756 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
757 work
758 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
759 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
760 [27177] dynamic-link:
761 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
762 work
763 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
764 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
765 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
766 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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771Major new features:
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773* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
774 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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775 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
776
777* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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779* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
780 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
781 Three ABIs are supported:
782
783 - arc-linux-gnu
784 - arc-linux-gnuhf
785 - arceb-linux-gnu
786
4d3a77c7 787 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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791 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
792
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796 this option.
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799 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
800 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
801
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804 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
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807 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
808 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
809 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
810 libpthread.
811
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814 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
815 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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817 NULL for an invalid signal number.
818
819 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
820 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
821
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824 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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826 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
827 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
828
829 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
830 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
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833 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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835 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
836 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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838 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
839 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
840 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
841 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
842 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
843 BTI compatible.
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848 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
849 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
850 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
851 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
852 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
853 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
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856 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
857 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
858 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
859 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
860 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
861 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
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866 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
867 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
868 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
869 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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872 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
873 was not declared in any header file.
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876 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
877 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
878 sigaction functions instead.
879
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881 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
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884 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
885 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
886 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
887 strsignal instead.
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890 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 891 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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893 strerror or strerror_r instead.
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896 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
897 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
898 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
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901 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
902 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
903 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
904 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
905 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
906 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
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909 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
910 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
911 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
912 flavor of secure RPC.)
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915 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
916 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
917 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
918 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
919 object, to enable the hooks.
920
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922 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
923 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
924 LDAP.
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934 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
935 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
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937 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
938 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
939 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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942 expanding ~user has been fixed.
943
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944 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
945 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
946 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
947 TALOS-2020-1019).
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951 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
952 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
953 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
954 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
955 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
956 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
957 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
958 filtee has constructor
959 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
960 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
961 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
962 character entities for infinity & pi
963 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
964 segfaults in applications
965 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
966 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
967 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
968 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
969 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
970 function with -mlong-double-64
971 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
972 binding
973 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
974 ld.so.cache
975 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
976 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
977 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
978 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
979 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
980 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
981 linker
982 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
983 dynamically loaded dsos
984 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
985 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
986 access
987 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
988 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
989 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
990 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
991 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
992 stale configuration forever
993 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
994 (CVE-2020-10029)
995 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
996 defaults to PIE
997 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
998 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
999 (CVE-2020-6096)
1000 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1001 on 32 bit and old kernel
1002 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1003 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1004 Occitan
1005 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1006 amount of sigset_t bytes
1007 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1008 strings
1009 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1010 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1011 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1012 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1013 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1014 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1015 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1016 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1017 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1018 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1019 size_t
1020 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1021 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1022 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1023 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1024 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1025 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1026 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1027 cpu=power9
1028 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1029 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1030 segfault
1031 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1032 exiting detached thread
1033 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1034 for x32
1035 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1036 ERANGE
1037 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1038 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1039 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1040 dependencies in audit mode
1041 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1042 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1043 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1044 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1045 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1046 input
1047 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1048 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1049 preserve r2
1050 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1051 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1052 variables
1053 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1054 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1055 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1056 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1057 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1058 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1059 corruption in memset
1060
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1063
1064Major new features:
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1066* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1067 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1068 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1069 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1070 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1071 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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1073* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1074 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1075 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1076 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1077
69ca4b54 1078* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 1079 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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1080 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1081
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1082* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1083
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1084* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1085 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1086 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1087 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1088 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1089 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1090 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1091 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1092
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1093Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1094
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1095* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1096 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1097 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1098 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1099 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1100 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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1103 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1104 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1105
1106* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1107 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1108 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1109 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1110
1111* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1112 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1113 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1114 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1115 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1116 made this no longer practical.
1117
1118 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1119 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1120 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1121 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1122 release.)
1123
1124 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1125 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1126 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1127
1128 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1129 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1130 using clock_gettime instead.
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1133 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1134 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1135 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1136 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1137
1138 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1139 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1140 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1141 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1142
1143 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1144 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1145 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1146 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1147 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1148 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
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1150 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1151 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1152 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1153 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1154 offset API.
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1156* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1157 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1158 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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1160 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1161 configurations.
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1164 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1165 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1166 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1167 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1168
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1170 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1171 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1172 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1173 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1174 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1175 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1176 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1177
1178 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1179 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1180
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1182 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1183 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1184 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1185 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1186 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1187
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1189
a1bd5f86 1190* It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
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1192 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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1195 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1196 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1197
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1199
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1200 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1201 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1202
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1203 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1204 environment variable during program execution after a security
1205 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1206 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1207 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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1209The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1211 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1212 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1213 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1214 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1215 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1216 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1217 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1218 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1219 linking failure
1220 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1221 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1222 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1223 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1224 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1225 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1226 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1227 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1228 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1229 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1230 7408-2005
1231 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1232 with localedef
1233 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1234 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1235 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1236 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1237 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1238 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1239 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1240 utmp entries
1241 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1242 ABSOLUTE ABI
1243 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1244 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1245 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1246 (stringop-overflow error)
1247 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1248 functions other can lead to crashes
1249 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1250 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1251 unconditionally
1252 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1253 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1254 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1255 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1256 still can fail with an error
1257 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1258 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1259 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1260 initialized correctly
1261 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1262 -frewrite-includes
1263 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1264 value to an unsigned
1265 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1266 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1267 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1268 protection
1269 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1270 ifunc variant.
1271 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1272 al. for Clang++
1273 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1274 (Slovenian)
1275 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1276 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1277 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1278 with -std=c11
1279 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1280 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1281 part
1282 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1283 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1284 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1285 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1286 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1287 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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1290Version 2.30
1291
1292Major new features:
1293
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1294* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1295 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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1296 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1297
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1298* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1299 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1301* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1302 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1303 to the callback function.
1304
51ea67d5 1305* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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1307* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1308 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1309 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
1310
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1312
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1313* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1314 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1315 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1316 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1317 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1318
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1319* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1320 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1321 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1322 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1323 link time reference, is gone.
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1326 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1327 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1328 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1329 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1330 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1331 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1332 the clock choice at initialization time).
1333
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1335 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1336 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1337
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1339
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1340* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1341 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1342 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1343 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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1344 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1345 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1346 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1347 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1348 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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1350* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1351 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1352 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1353 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1354 since glibc 2.17.
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1356* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1357 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1358
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1359* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1360 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1361
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1362* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1363 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1364
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1365* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1366 BIND_NOW flag.
1367
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1368* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1369 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1370 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1371
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1372* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1373 header have been removed.
1374
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1375* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1376 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1377 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1378 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
1379
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1383
1384 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1385 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1387Security related changes:
1388
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1389 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1390 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1391 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1392 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1393 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1394 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1395 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1397 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1398 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1399 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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1404 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1405 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1406 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1407 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1408 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1409 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1410 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1411 invalid input drops valid char
1412 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1413 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1414 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1415 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1416 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1417 malloc.h.
1418 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1419 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1420 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1421 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1422 functions
1423 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1424 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1425 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1426 for long double = double
1427 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1428 long double = double
1429 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1430 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1431 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1432 long timeouts
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1435 checking for NULL.
1436 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1437 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1438 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1439 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1440 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1441 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1442 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1443 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1444 not the default "nor"
1445 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1446 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1447 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1448 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1449 compiler barriers.
1450 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1451 unnecessary librt dependencies
1452 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1453 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1454 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1455 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1456 unsorted chunk
1457 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1458 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1459 to R_SPARC_H44
1460 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1461 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1462 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1463 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1464 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1465 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1466 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1467 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1468 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1469 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1470 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1471 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1472 was not used
1473 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1474 tests
1475 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1476 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1477 time_t changes
1478 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1479 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1480 kernels and break testing
1481 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1482 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1483 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1484 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1485 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1486 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1487 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1488 -O3 -march=skylake
1489 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1490 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1491 crash
1492 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1493 linked glibc
1494 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1495 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1496 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1497 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1498 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1499 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1500 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1501 always implemented in the same library
1502 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1503 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1504 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1505 testroot
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1509
1510Major new features:
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1513 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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1515* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1516 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1517 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1518 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1519 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1520 configured location.
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1525 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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1528 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1529 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1530 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1531 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1532 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1533 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1534 process actually does not use HTM).
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1537 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1538 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1539 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1540 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1541 of the same name.
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1544 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1545 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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1550 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1551 supported:
1552 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1553 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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1556 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1557 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1558 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1559 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1560 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1561 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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1564 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1565 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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1570 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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1573 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1574 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1575 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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1578 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1579 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1580 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1581 structures.
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1584 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1585 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1586 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1587 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1588 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1589
1590 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1591 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1592 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1593 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1594 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1595
1596 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1597 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1598 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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1601
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1605 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1606
1607 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1608 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1613 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1614 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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1617 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1618 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1619 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1620 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1622 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1623 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1624 or command injection issues in applications.
1625
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1628 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1629 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1630 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1631 thousands
1632 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1633 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1634 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1635 --param options)
1636 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1637 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1638 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1639 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1640 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1641 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1642 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1643 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1644 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1645 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1646 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1647 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1648 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1649 pointer argument is non-NULL
1650 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1651 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1652 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1653 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1654 multithreads call popen
1655 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1656 and pthread_create fails.
1657 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1658 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1659 constructor
1660 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1661 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1662 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1663 source tree
1664 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1665 float
1666 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1667 one error
1668 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1669 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1670 linker
1671 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1672 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1673 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1674 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1675 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1676 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1677 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1678 filesystems
1679 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1680 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1681 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1682 functions
1683 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1684 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1685 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1686 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1687 have wrong type
1688 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1689 wrong type
1690 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1691 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1692 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1693 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1694 threads
1695 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1696 start.S
1697 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1698 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1699 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1700 powerpc64le
1701 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1702 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1703 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1704 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1705 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1706 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1707 strftime
1708 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1709 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1710 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1711 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1712 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1713 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1714 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1715 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1716 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1717 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1718 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1719 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1720 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1721 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1722 tcache size
1723 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1724 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1725 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1726 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1727 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1728 (CVE-2018-19591)
1729 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1730 nearest rounding mode
1731 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1732 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1733 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1734 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1735 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1736 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1737 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1738 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1739 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1740 error
1741 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1742 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1743 using GCC 8
1744 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1745 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1746 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1747 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1748 ppc64le
1749 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1750 expected result
1751 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1752 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1753 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1754 sigaltstack
1755 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1756 answers will be rejected)
1757 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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1761
1762Major new features:
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1765 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1766 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1767 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1768 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1769 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1770 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1771 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1772 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1773 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1774 archive or binary locales.
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1777 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1778 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1779 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1780 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1781 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1782 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1783 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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1785 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1786 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1787 validated for i686.
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1790 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1791 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1792 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1793 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1794 field) to indicate such support is required.
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1797 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1798 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1800* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1801 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1802
1803 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1804 fMxaddfNx functions.
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1807 fMxsubfNx functions.
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1810 fMxmulfNx functions.
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1813 fMxdivfNx functions.
1814
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df467d22 1816 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 1817 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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1819 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 1821* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
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1825 patches.
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1828 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1829 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1830 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1831 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1832 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1833 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1834 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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1836* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
1837 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1838 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1839 the fstatat64 function.
1840
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1841* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1842 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1843 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1844 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1845 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1846 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1847 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1848 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1849 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
1850
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1852 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1853 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1854 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1855 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1856 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1857 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1858 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1859 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1860 results in a load failure now.
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1863 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1864 <threads.h>:
1865
1866 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1867 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1868
1869 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1870 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1871
1872 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1873
1874 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1875 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1876
1877 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1878
1879 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
1880
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1882
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1883* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1884 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1885 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1886
1887* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1888 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1889 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1890 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1891 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1892 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1893
1894* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1895 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1896 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1897 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1898 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1899 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1900 (Bug #1190.)
1901
1902* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1903 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1904 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1905 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1906 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1907 further explanation.
1908
1909 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1910 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1911 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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1913* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
1914
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1915* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1916 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1917 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
1918
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1919* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1920 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1921 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1922 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
1923
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1924* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1925 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1926 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1927 for this function instead.
1928
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1929* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1930 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1931 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1932
1933* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1934 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1935 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1936 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
1937
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1939 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1940 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1941 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1942 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
1943
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1945 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1946 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1947 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1948 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1949 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1950 such as libgcrypt.
1951
1952* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1953 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1954 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1955 enabled.
1956
1957* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1958 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1959 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1960
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1961* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1962 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1963 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1964 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1965 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1966 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1967
1968 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1969 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1970 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1971 behavior in a future release.
1972
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1974
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1977Security related changes:
1978
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1979 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1980 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1981 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1982 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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1984 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1985 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1986
1987 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1988 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1989 Izbyshev.
1990
1991 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1992 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1993 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1994
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1997 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1998 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1999 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2000 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2001 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2002 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2003 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2004 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2005 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2006 14651
2007 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2008 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2009 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2010 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2011 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2012 conversion is given
2013 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2014 date
2015 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2016 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2017 scope with -O1 and higher
2018 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2019 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2020 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2021 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2022 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2023 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2024 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2025 horrible machine code)
2026 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2027 last constant.
2028 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2029 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2030 symbols
2031 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2032 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2033 defined
2034 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2035 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2036 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2037 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2038 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2039 fpscr.c'
2040 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2041 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2042 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2043 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2044 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2045 the base address
2046 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2047 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2048 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2049 open_verify
2050 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2051 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2052 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2053 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2054 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2055 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2056 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2057 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2058 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2059 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2060 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2061 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2062 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2063 dlopen
2064 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2065 AT_SECURE=1
2066 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2067 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2068 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2069 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2070 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2071 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2072 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2073 for Spanish with CLDR
2074 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2075 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2076 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2077 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2078 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2079 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2080 es_BO
2081 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2082 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
2083 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2084 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2085 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2086 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2087 dlopen failures
2088 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2089 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2090 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2091 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2092 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2093 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2094 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2095 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2096 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2097 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2098 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2099 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2100 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2101 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2102 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2103 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2104 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2105 makecontext
2106 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2107 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2108 required
2109 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2110 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2111 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2112 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2113 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2114 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2115 disabled
2116 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2117 failure
2118 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2119 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2120 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2121 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2122 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2123 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2124 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2125 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2126 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2127 and libc build with -Os)
2128 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2129 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2130 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2131 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2132 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2133 that changes /etc/passwd
2134 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2135 (CVE-2018-11237)
2136 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2137 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2138 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2139 posix/regcomp.c
2140 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2141 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2142 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2143 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2144 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2145 AT_SECURE
2146 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2147 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2148 parser.c
2149 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2150 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2151 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2152 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2153 directed rounding
2154 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2155 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2156 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2157 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2158 lookup
2159 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2160 interposition
2161 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2162 DSO boundaries.
2163 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2164 <linux/time.h>
2165 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2166 checking
2167 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2168 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2169 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2170 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2171 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2172 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2173 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2174 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2175 processors
2176 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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2180
2181Major new features:
2182
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2184 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
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2187 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2188 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2189 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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2190 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2191 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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2195 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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2198
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2202 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2203 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2204 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2205 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2206 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2207 from a security and performance perspective.
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2210 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2211 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2212 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2213
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2216 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2217 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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2218 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2219
a23aa5b7 2220* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
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2223 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2224 _Float128.
2225
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2227 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2228 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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2232* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2233 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2234 pkey_get.
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2236* The copy_file_range function was added.
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2238* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2239
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2240* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2241 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2242 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
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2245 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2246 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2247 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2248 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2249 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2250 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2251
2252 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2253 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2254 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2255 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2256 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2257 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2258 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2259
2260 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2261 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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2263 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2264 respectively.
2265
2266 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2267 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2268 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2269 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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2271 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2272 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2273 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
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2276 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 2277 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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2279* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2280 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2281 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2282
2283 - rv64imac lp64
2284 - rv64imafdc lp64
2285 - rv64imafdc lp64d
2286
00cdcf5a
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2287Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2288
4378b735
CD
2289* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2290 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 2291 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
4378b735
CD
2292 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2293 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2294 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2295 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2296 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2297 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2298 fix this.
2299
f1a844ac
FW
2300* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2301 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2302 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2303
2fc21aaa
FW
2304* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2305 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2306 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2307 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2308 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2309 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2310 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2311 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2312 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2313 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2314 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2315 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2316 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2317 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2318 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2319 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2320 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2321 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2322 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2323 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2324 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2325 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2326 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2327 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2328 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2329 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2330
60e2846e
DL
2331* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2332 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
00cdcf5a 2333
813378e9
JM
2334* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2335 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2336 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2337 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2338 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2339 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2340 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2341
5a80d39d
JM
2342* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2343 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2344 exp10l for these functions instead.
2345
4fa9b3bf
JM
2346* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2347 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2348 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2349
644d3857
JM
2350* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2351 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2352 ignored.
2353
8df5d347
JM
2354* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2355 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2356 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2357 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2358
c0a25aa9
FW
2359* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2360 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2361
34eb4157
FW
2362* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2363 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2364
754034c4
JM
2365* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2366 programs.
2367
ed95f611
AZ
2368* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2369
48a8f832
ZW
2370* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2371 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2372 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2373 instead.
2374
2375 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2376 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2377 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2378 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2379 use, but predates the bits convention.
2380
00cdcf5a
SP
2381Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2382
1faaf703
JB
2383* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2384 subdirectory.
00cdcf5a
SP
2385
2386Security related changes:
2387
403143e1
FW
2388 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2389 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2390 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2391 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2392 script.)
00cdcf5a 2393
822f523b
FW
2394 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2395 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2396 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2397 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 2398
914c9994
FW
2399 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2400 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2401 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2402 of service.
2403
15e84c63
AJ
2404 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2405 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
a159b53f
PE
2406 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2407
37ac8e63
FW
2408 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2409 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2410 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2411 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2412
8a0b17e4
FW
2413 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2414 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2415 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2416 Qualys.
2417
3ff3dfa5
FW
2418 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2419 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2420 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2421 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2422 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2423
3e3c904d
AJ
2424 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2425 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2426 current directory.
2427
52a713fd
DL
2428 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2429 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2430 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2431
4590634f
FW
2432 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2433 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2434 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2435
71aa429b
FW
2436 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2437 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2438 small, instead of NULL.
2439
00cdcf5a
SP
2440The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2441
242cbc90
DL
2442 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2443 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2444 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2445 locale
2446 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2447 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2448 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2449 cases
2450 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2451 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2452 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2453 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2454 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2455 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2456 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2457 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2458 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2459 "Bangla"
2460 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2461 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2462 width Latin characters
2463 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2464 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2465 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2466 letters
2467 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2468 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2469 (CVE-2009-5064)
2470 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2471 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2472 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2473 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2474 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2475 if malloc succeeded
2476 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2477 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2478 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2479 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2480 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2481 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2482 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2483 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2484 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2485 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2486 U+309A
2487 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2488 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2489 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2490 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2491 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2492 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2493 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2494 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2495 for Nicaragua
2496 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2497 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2498 are not found.
2499 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2500 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2501 access
2502 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2503 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2504 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2505 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2506 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2507 __regcall calling convention
2508 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2509 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2510 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2511 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2512 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2513 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2514 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2515 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2516 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2517 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2518 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2519 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2520 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2521 locale
2522 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2523 protector=all
2524 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2525 wcwidth
2526 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2527 consistency check failures
2528 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2529 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2530 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2531 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2532 PIE
2533 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2534 locales
2535 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2536 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2537 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2538 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2539 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2540 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2541 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2542 on memory allocation failure
2543 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2544 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2545 the suspect)
2546 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2547 default (i386)
2548 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2549 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2550 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2551 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2552 instead of EAI_NODATA
2553 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2554 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2555 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2556 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2557 implementation
2558 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2559 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2560 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2561 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2562 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2563 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2564 allocation in syscall loops)
2565 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2566 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2567 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2568 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2569 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2570 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2571 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2572 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2573 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2574 occur with -O3
2575 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2576 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2577 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2578 amounts)
2579 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2580 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2581 niu_NZ
2582 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2583 checks
2584 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2585 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2586 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2587 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2588 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2589 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2590 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2591 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2592 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2593 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2594 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2595 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2596 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2597 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2598 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2599 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2600 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2601 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2602 parsing after OOM
2603 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2604 object
2605 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2606 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2607 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
2608 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2609 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2610 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 2611 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
2612 ppc64le
2613 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2614 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2615 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2616 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2617 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2618 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2619 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2620 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2621 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2622 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2623 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2624 math_force_eval
2625 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2626 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2627 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2628 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2629 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2630 the svid compat wrapper
2631 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2632 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2633 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2634 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2635 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2636 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2637 --verbose.
2638 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2639 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2640 to 2.26
2641 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2642 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2643 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2644 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2645 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2646 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2647 (CVE-2017-15804)
2648 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2649 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2650 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2651 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2652 failure."
2653 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2654 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2655 -m32
2656 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2657 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2658 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2659 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2660 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2661 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2662 inside the ASCII printable range
2663 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2664 -mlong-double-64
2665 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2666 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2667 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2668 Internet
2669 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2670 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2671 backslash
2672 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2673 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2674 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2675 heaps in an arena
2676 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2677 networking interface
2678 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2679 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2680 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2681 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2682 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2683 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2684 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2685 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2686 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2687 order
2688 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2689 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2690 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2691 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2692 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2693 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2694 same as for Croatian
2695 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2696 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2697 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2698 for initial thread"
2699 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2700 SC_SSIZE_MAX
2701 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2702 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2703 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2704 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2705 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2706 (CVE-2017-1000408)
2707 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2708 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2709 modified in case of success
2710 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2711 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2712 success
2713 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2714 stack-protector=all
2715 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2716 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2717 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2718 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2719 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2720 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2721 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2722 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2723 adding it on top
2724 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2725 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2726 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2727 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2728 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2729 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2730 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2731 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2732 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2733 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2734 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2735 elision and tunables
2736 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2737 "invalid" exception
2738 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2739 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2740 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2741 exception
2742 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2743 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2744 power4
2745 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2746 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2747 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2748 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2749 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2750 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2751 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2752 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2753 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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2756Version 2.26
2757
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2758Major new features:
2759
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2760* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2761 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2762 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2763 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2764 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2765 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2766 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2767
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2768* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2769 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 2770 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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2771 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2772 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2773 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2774 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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2776* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2777 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2778 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 2779
2b2ccd0c 2780* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 2781
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2782 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2783 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2784 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 2785
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2786 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2787 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2788 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2789 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2790 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 2791
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2792 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2793 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2794 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 2795
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2796* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2797 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 2798
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2799* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2800 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2801 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2802 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 2803
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2804* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2805 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2806 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2807 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 2808
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2809* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2810 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2811 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2812 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 2813
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2814* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2815 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2816 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 2817
2b2ccd0c 2818* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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2819 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2820 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2821 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 2822
2b2ccd0c 2823 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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2824 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2825 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2826 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2827 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2828
2829 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2830 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2831 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2832 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2833 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2834 interfaces should be used instead.
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2836Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2837
2838* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2839 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2840 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2841 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2842 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2843 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2844 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2845 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2846
2847* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2848 removed.
2849
2850* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 2851 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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2852 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2853 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2854
2855* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2856 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2857 default.
2858
2859 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2860 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2861 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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2862 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2863 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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2864
2865 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2866 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2867 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2868 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2869
2870* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2871 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2872 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2873 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2874
2875* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2876 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 2877
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2878* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2879 exported by accident.
2880
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2881* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2882 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2883 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2884
2885* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2886 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2887 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2888 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2889
2890* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2891
2892* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2893
2894* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2895 free instead.
2896
2897* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2898 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2899
2900* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2901 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2902
2903* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2904 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2905 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2906 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2907 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2908 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2909 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2910 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2911
2912* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2913 synced with the kernel:
2914
2915 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2916 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2917
2918 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2919 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2920 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2921
2922 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2923 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2924
2925Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2926
2927* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2928 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2929 x86-32 and x86-64.)
2930
7e368000 2931* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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2933* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2934 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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2935
2936 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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2937 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2938 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2939 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 2940 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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2942Security related changes:
2943
e14a2772 2944* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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2945 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2946
2947* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2948 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2949
2950* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2951 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2952 (CVE-2010-3192).
2953
2954* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2955 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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2957The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2958
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2959 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2960 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2961 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2962 fields
2963 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2964 (CVE-2010-3192)
2965 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2966 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2967 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2968 ld.bfd is available
2969 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2970 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2971 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2972 x86 and other generic code
2973 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2974 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2975 incorrect
2976 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2977 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2978 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2979 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2980 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2981 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2982 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2983 resolver
2984 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2985 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2986 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2987 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2988 chillu characters
2989 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2990 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2991 receiving data
2992 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2993 whitespace
2994 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2995 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2996 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2997 for Peru
2998 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2999 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3000 failures consistently
3001 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3002 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3003 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3004 frame-pointer on i386
3005 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3006 register
3007 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3008 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3009 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3010 generic c code is used
3011 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3012 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3013 around 4000
3014 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3015 (CVE-2017-12133)
3016 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3017 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3018 with -lieee
3019 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3020 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3021 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3022 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3023 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3024 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3025 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3026 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3027 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3028 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3029 remove()
3030 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3031 checked for errors.
3032 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3033 new posix_spawn implementation
3034 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3035 leads to lower CPU frequency
3036 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3037 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3038 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3039 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3040 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3041 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3042 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3043 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3044 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3045 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3046 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3047 not support gethostbyname4_r
3048 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3049 switching
3050 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3051 arenas
3052 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3053 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3054 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3055 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3056 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3057 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3058 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3059 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3060 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3061 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3062 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3063 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3064 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3065 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3066 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3067 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3068 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3069 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3070 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3071 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3072 retry value
3073 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3074 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3075 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3076 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3077 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3078 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3079 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3080 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3081 [21537] libc:
3082 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3083 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3084 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3085 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3086 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3087 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3088 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3089 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3090 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3091 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3092 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3093 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3094 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3095 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3096 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3097 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3098 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3099 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3100 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3101 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3102 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3103 issue on x86-64
3104 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3105 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3106 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3107 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3108 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3109 construction
3110 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3111 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3112 between_2_3
3113 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3114 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3115 conditions
3116 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3117 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3118 Hindi Locale
3119 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3120 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3121 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3122 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3123 locale
3124 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3125 leading to relocation crash
3126 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3127 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3128 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3129 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3130 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3131 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3132 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3133 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3134 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3135 locale
3136 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3137 locale
3138 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3139 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3140 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3141 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3142 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3143 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3144 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3145 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3146 strings
3147 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3148 protector=all
3149 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3150 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
3151 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3152 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3153 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3154 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3155 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3156 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3157 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3158 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3159 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3160 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3161 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3162 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3163 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3164 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3165 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3166 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3167 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3168 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3169 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3170 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3171 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3172 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3173 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3174 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3175 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3176 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3177 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3178 with unicode 9.0
3179 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3180 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3181 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3182 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3183 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 3184
d5b396c1 3185\f
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3186Version 2.25
3187
48789000
JM
3188* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3189 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3190 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3191 Library.
e720d3d9 3192
bf91be88
JM
3193* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3194 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 3195 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
bf91be88
JM
3196 the GNU C Library.
3197
412cb261
JM
3198* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3199 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3200 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3201 the GNU C Library.
3202
c0307377
ZW
3203* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3204 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3205 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3206 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3207 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3208 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3209 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3210 will not.
3211
3212 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3213 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3214 many years.
3215
dbab6577
ZW
3216* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3217 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3218 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3219
3220 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3221 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3222 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3223 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3224 problem.
3225
ec94343f 3226* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
c0b43536
JM
3227 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3228 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 3229
a292f45a
JM
3230* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3231 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
5b17fd0d
JM
3232 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3233 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3234 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3235 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3236 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3237 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3238 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3239 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3240 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3241 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 3242
d942e95c
JM
3243* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3244
f82a4bdb
JM
3245 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3246
423c2b9d
JM
3247 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3248 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3249 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 3250
55a38f82
JM
3251 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3252 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3253
525f8039
JM
3254 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3255 fminmagf, fminmagl.
3256
1e7c8fcc
JM
3257 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3258
29cb9293 3259 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 3260
cc6a8d74
JM
3261 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3262 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 3263
eaf5ad0b
JM
3264 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3265
eb3c12c7 3266 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 3267 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 3268
f3b904d9
JM
3269* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3270 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3271
cecbc796
NA
3272* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3273 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3274 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3275
ea1bd74d
ZW
3276* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3277 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3278 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3279 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3280 effects of the memory clear).
3281
b0216d3e
JM
3282* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3283 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3284 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3285 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3286
f3b904d9
JM
3287* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3288 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3289 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3290 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3291 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3292 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 3293
92dcaa3e
FW
3294* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3295 have been added.
3296
705a79f8
FW
3297* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3298 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3299 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3300 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3301 as large as several megabytes.
3302
4d728087
FW
3303* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3304 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3305 been removed.
3306
e863cce5
FW
3307* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3308 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3309 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3310 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3311 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3312 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3313 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3314
7ec47a85
FW
3315* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3316 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3317 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3318 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3319
099191b1 3320* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
FW
3321 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3322 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3323 Internet.
3324
bbe989ee
FW
3325* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3326 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3327 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 3328
b76e0659
FW
3329* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3330 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3331 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3332 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3333
3a2a1d2c
FW
3334* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3335 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3336 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3337 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3338 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3339
be728303
FW
3340* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3341 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3342 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3343 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3344 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3345
6815a33d
FW
3346* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3347 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3348 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3349 did not reflect that.
3350
022dfdce
SL
3351* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3352 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3353 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3354 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3355 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3356 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3357 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3358 'gcc/config.gcc'.
3359
23b5cae1
MG
3360* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3361 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3362 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3363 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3364
7715d3ab
SP
3365* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3366 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3367 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3368 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3369
0cea3587
SP
3370* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3371 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3372 guarantees.
3373
3374* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3375 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3376 make state changes.
3377
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3378Security related changes:
3379
fc82b0a2 3380* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4d047efd
FW
3381 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3382 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3383 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 3384 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 3385
fc82b0a2
FW
3386* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3387 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3388 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3389 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3390 (CVE-2015-5180)
3391
e720d3d9
CD
3392The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3393
fdb724f9 3394 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
3395 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3396 protector-all
3397 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3398 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3399 before it started waiting
3400 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3401 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3402 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3403 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3404 wrong type
3405 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3406 library linked with pthread
3407 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3408 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3409 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3410 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3411 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3412 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3413 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3414 when it shouldnt
3415 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3416 not
3417 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3418 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3419 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3420 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3421 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3422 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3423 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3424 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3425 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3426 termination
3427 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3428 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3429 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3430 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3431 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3432 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3433 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3434 causes a segmentation fault
3435 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3436 linking
3437 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3438 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3439 uninitialized GOT
3440 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3441 versions
3442 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3443 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3444 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3445 is always true.
3446 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3447 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3448 modes
3449 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3450 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3451 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3452 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3453 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3454 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3455 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3456 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3457 libpthread.a
3458 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3459 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3460 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3461 _res_hconf
3462 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3463 information.
3464 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3465 penalty
3466 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3467 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3468 cause transition penalty
3469 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3470 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3471 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3472 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3473 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3474 mcount.oS)
3475 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3476 Checking
3477 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3478 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3479 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3480 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3481 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3482 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3483 multi-arch
3484 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3485 (RES_USEBSTRING)
3486 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3487 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3488 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3489 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3490 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3491 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3492 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3493 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3494 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3495 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3496 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3497 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3498 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3499 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3500 glibc
3501 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3502 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3503 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3504 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3505 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3506 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3507 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3508 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3509 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3510 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3511 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3512 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3513 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3514 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3515 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3516 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3517 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3518 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3519 RES_USE_INET6
3520 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3521 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3522 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3523 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3524 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3525 wrong condition
3526 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3527 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3528 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3529 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3530 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3531 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3532 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3533 clang
3534 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3535 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3536 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3537 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3538 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 3539\f
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3540Version 2.24
3541
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3542* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3543 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3544 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3545 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3546 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3547 architectures.
3548
b6ebba70
MF
3549* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3550 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3551 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 3552
7584a3f9
FW
3553* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3554 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3555
b49ab5f4
FW
3556* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3557 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3558 instead of “union wait”.
3559
ced8f893
SG
3560* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3561 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3562 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3563 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3564 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3565 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3566 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3567
2ba3cfa1
FW
3568* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3569 API.
3570
b7a9b7b0
MF
3571* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3572 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3573 drop it.
6a54bcda 3574
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RS
3575* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3576 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3577 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3578 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3579 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3580 extensions.
3581
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3582Security related changes:
3583
f5b3338d
FW
3584* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3585 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3586 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3587
4ab2ab03
FW
3588* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3589 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3590 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3591 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 3592
5171f307
FW
3593* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3594 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3595 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3596
bc779a1a
FW
3597* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3598 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3599 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3600
fab38231
FW
3601* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3602 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3603 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3604 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3605
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3606The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3607
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3608 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3609 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3610 of MS-DOS.
3611 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3612 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3613 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3614 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3615 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3616 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3617 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3618 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3619 CLDR data
3620 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3621 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3622 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3623 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3624 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3625 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3626 romanisation
3627 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3628 and +/-
3629 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3630 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3631 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3632 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3633 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3634 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3635 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3636 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3637 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3638 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3639 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3640 all locales
3641 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3642 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3643 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3644 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3645 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3646 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3647 execute
3648 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3649 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3650 -Wsystem-headers
3651 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3652 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3653 Romanian locale data
3654 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3655 symbol
3656 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3657 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3658 language
3659 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3660 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3661 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3662 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3663 machine
3664 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3665 description
3666 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3667 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3668 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3669 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3670 when using RTLD_NEXT
3671 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3672 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3673 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3674 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3675 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3676 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3677 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3678 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3679 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3680 Excavator core
3681 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3682 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3683 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3684 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3685 double range
3686 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3687 part zero incorrect
3688 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3689 equality tests
3690 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3691 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3692 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3693 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3694 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3695 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3696 glibc-2.22
3697 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3698 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3699 'tst-numeric.c'
3700 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3701 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3702 low part
3703 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3704 result
3705 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3706 unaligned stack
3707 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3708 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3709 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3710 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3711 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3712 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3713 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3714 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3715 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3716 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3717 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3718 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3719 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3720 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3721 modes
3722 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3723 server addresses
3724 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3725 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3726 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3727 response to getaddrinfo
3728 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3729 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3730 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3731 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3732 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3733 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3734 sometimes incorrect
3735 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3736 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3737 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3738 record types
3739 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3740 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3741 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3742 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3743 (CVE-2016-3075)
3744 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3745 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3746 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3747 resolving symbols
3748 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3749 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3750 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3751 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3752 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3753 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3754 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3755 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3756 gethosts
3757 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3758 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3759 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3760 (CVE-2016-3706)
3761 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3762 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3763 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3764 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3765 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3766 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3767 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3768 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3769 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3770 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3771 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3772 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3773 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3774 executable
3775 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3776 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3777 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3778 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3779 XPG3
3780 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3781 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3782 (CVE-2016-4429)
3783 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3784 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3785 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3786 AS not supporting AVX512
3787 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3788 sNaN argument
3789 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3790 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3791 argument
3792 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3793 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3794 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3795 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3796 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3797 eax=0x80000001
3798 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3799 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3800 subnormals
3801 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3802 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3803 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3804 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3805 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3806 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3807 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3808 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3809 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3810 input
3811 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3812 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3813 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3814 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3815 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3816 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3817 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3818 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3819 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3820 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3821 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3822 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3823 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3824 double rounding
3825 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3826 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3827 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3828 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3829 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3830 (Only arm/linux)
3831 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3832 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3833 fallbacks
3834 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3835 "invalid" exceptions
3836 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3837 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3838 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3839 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3840 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3841 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3842 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3843 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3844 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 3845\f
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3846Version 2.23
3847
23256f5e
MF
3848* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3849 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3850 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3851 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3852 89, 16061, and 18568.
3853
2359035a
FW
3854* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3855 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3856 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3857 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3858 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3859 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3860 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3861
8b7b7f75
MW
3862* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3863 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3864 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3865
2eecc8af
FW
3866* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3867 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3868 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3869 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3870 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3871 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3872 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3873
a62719ba
FW
3874* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3875 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3876 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3877 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3878 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 3879 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
3880 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3881 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 3882
bc148ca1
MF
3883* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3884 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3885 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3886 independent of the GNU C Library.
3887
1c70b6f1
ZW
3888* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3889 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 3890
eed3e1eb
JM
3891* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3892 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3893 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3894 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3895 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3896 Linux kernel.
3897
1efad39b
SL
3898* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3899 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 3900
d709042a
JM
3901* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3902 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3903 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3904 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3905 defining their own copy.
3906
b08b4218
JM
3907* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3908 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3909 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 3910
8f5e8b01
JM
3911Security related changes:
3912
6400ae6e
FW
3913* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3914 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3915
3916* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3917 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3918 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3919 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3920 (CVE-2015-8777)
3921
3922* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3923 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3924
3925* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3926 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3927
8f5e8b01
JM
3928* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3929 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 3930 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 3931
e9db92d3
CD
3932* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3933 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3934 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3935 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3936 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3937 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3938 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3939 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3940 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3941 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3942 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3943 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3944 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3945
ad372e29 3946The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 3947
ad372e29
AZ
3948 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3949 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3950 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3951 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3952 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3953 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3954 use `mkstemp'
3955 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3956 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3957 overflow/underflow errors
3958 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3959 overflow/underflow
3960 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3961 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3962 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3963 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3964 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3965 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3966 are not contiguous
3967 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3968 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3969 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3970 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3971 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3972 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3973 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3974 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3975 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3976 all exceptions
3977 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3978 arguments
3979 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3980 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3981 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3982 should include
3983 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3984 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3985 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3986 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3987 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3988 GNU/Linux
3989 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3990 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3991 arguments
3992 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3993 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3994 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3995 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3996 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3997 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3998 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3999 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4000 rounding results
4001 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4002 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4003 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4004 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4005 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4006 fails
4007 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4008 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4009 block boundary
4010 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4011 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4012 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4013 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4014 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4015 4.7?
4016 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4017 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4018 (related to lock elision)
4019 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4020 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4021 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4022 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4023 (CVE-2015-8779)
4024 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4025 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4026 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4027 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4028 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4029 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4030 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4031 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4032 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4033 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4034 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4035 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4036 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4037 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4038 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4039 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4040 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4041 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4042 contains a vector instruction exception.
4043 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4044 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4045 locales
4046 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4047 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4048 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4049 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4050 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4051 missing break ?
4052 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4053 32bit processes
4054 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4055 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4056 infinity
4057 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4058 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4059 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4060 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4061 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4062 be forced unloaded
4063 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4064 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4065 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4066 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4067 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4068 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4069 statically too large
4070 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4071 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4072 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4073 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4074 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4075 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4076 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4077 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4078 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4079 FUTEX_SHARED
4080 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4081 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4082 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4083 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4084 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4085 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4086 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4087 opendir()
4088 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4089 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4090 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4091 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4092 signgam
4093 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4094 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4095 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4096 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4097 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4098 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4099 dependencies
4100 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4101 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4102 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4103 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4104 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4105 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4106 (CVE-2015-8776)
4107 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4108 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4109 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4110 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4111 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4112 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4113 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4114 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4115 contention
4116 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4117 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4118 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4119 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4120 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4121 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4122 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4123 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4124 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4125 rounding modes
4126 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4127 ILP32
4128 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4129 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4130 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4131 threshold
4132 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4133 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4134 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4135 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4136 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4137 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4138 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4139 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4140 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4141 pthread_setaffinity_np
4142 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4143 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4144 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4145 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4146 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4147 prelink
4148 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4149 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4150 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4151 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4152 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4153 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4154 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4155 bits/mathcalls.h
4156 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4157 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4158 for C99-based standards
4159 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4160 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4161 math-only
4162 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4163 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4164 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4165 disabled
4166 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4167 "inexact" exceptions
4168 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4169 arguments
4170 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4171 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4172 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4173 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4174 rules
4175 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4176 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4177 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4178 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4179 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4180 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4181 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4182 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4183 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4184 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4185 from 32bit
4186 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4187 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4188 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4189 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4190 subnormals
4191 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4192 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4193 error on 32-bit architectures
4194 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4195 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4196 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4197 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4198 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4199 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4200 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4201 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4202 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4203 -Os
4204 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4205 CPU's.
4206 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4207 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4208 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4209 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4210 architectures
4211 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
aeb47bbc 4212\f
1c7a4a51
JM
4213Version 2.22
4214
4215* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4216
3df5cd98 4217 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
4218 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4219 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4220 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4221 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4222 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4223 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4224 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4225 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4226 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4227 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4228 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4229 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4230 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4231 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4232 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4233 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4234 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
4235 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4236 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 4237
f7fba805
SL
4238* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4239 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4240
2959eda9
AS
4241* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4242 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4243 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4244 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4245 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4246 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 4247
42261ad7
FW
4248* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4249 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4250 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4251 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4252 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4253
afcd9480
AM
4254* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4255 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4256 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4257
4a4839c9
AO
4258* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4259 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4260 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4261 17998.
4262
b13b96ca
AS
4263* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4264 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4265 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
4266
4267* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
4268 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4269 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
4270 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4271 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
4272 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4273 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 4274 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
4275
4276* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4277 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4278 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4279 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
4280
4281* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4282 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4283 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
4284
4285* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4286 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
4287
4288* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4289 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4290 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4291
a03ba363 4292 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
4293 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4294 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 4295\f
58b930ae
SP
4296Version 2.21
4297
4298* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4299
042e1521 4300 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
4301 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4302 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4303 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4304 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4305 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4306 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4307 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4308 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4309 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4310 17892.
4311
46d54873
FW
4312* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4313 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4314 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4315 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4316 intended.
042e1521
CD
4317
4318* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4319 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4320 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4321 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4322 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4323 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 4324
522e6ee3
CLT
4325* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4326
d3b00f46
AZ
4327* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4328 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 4329 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 4330
8d2c0a59
AZ
4331* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4332 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4333 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4334 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4335 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4336 effects being visible outside transactions.
4337
dc400d7b
RE
4338* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4339 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 4340
0f9dfe04
L
4341* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4342
a39208bd
CD
4343* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4344 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 4345 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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4346 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4347 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 4348
a5357b7c
JL
4349* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4350 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4351
e54db0ea
AM
4352* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4353 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4354 format.
11e3417a 4355
4863355a
JM
4356* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4357 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4358 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4359
a4ecc9eb
JM
4360* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4361 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4362
0d560bbf 4363* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
4364
4365* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4366 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4367 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4368 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
4369
4370* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4371 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
4372
4373* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4374 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4375 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4376 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4377 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4378 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4379 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4380 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4381 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4382 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4383 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4384 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4385 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4386
4387 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4388 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4389 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4390 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4391 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 4392\f
d5b396c1
AM
4393Version 2.20
4394
4395* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4396
6a9350c8
JM
4397 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4398 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4399 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4400 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4401 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4402 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4403 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4404 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4405 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4406 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4407 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4408 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4409 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4410 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4411 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 4412
95ee7fb1
SL
4413* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4414 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4415 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4416 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4417 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 4418 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
4419 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4420 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4421 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4422 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4423
0961f7e1
JL
4424* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4425 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4426 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4427 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4428 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 4429
f940b965
RE
4430* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4431
d0f5b3f8
JM
4432* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4433 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4434
d6fe5e58
JM
4435* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4436 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4437 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4438 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4439 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4440 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4441
464263cc
JM
4442* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4443 from ports.
c941736c
JM
4444
4445* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4446 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4447 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4448 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4449 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4450 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4451 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
4452
4453* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
4454
4455* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4456 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4457 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4458 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4459 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4460 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4461 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
4462
4463* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4464 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4465 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4466 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4467 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
4468
4469* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4470 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4471 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
4472
4473* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4474 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4475 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4476 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
4477
4478* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4479 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4480 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4481 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4482 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4483 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4484 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4485 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
4486
4487* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4488 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4489 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4490 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4491 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4492 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4493 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4494 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4495 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
4496
4497* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4498 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4499 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4500 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4501 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 4502 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
4503
4504* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4505 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4506 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4507 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
4508\f
4509Version 2.19
4510
4511* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4512
fd2f9486
JM
4513 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4514 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4515 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4516 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4517 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4518 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4519 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4520 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4521 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4522 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
4523 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4524 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4525 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4526 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4527 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
4528 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4529 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4530 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 4531
11520a57
CD
4532* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4533 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4534
2fe16229
CD
4535* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4536 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4537 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
4538 extension which uses __block.
4539
303e567a
SP
4540* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4541 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4542 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4543 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4544 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4545
141f3a77
SP
4546* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4547 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4548 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4549 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4550 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
4551
4552* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4553 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4554 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4555 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4556 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
4557
4558* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4559 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4560 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4561
ba0d798c
WN
4562* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4563 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4564 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4565 #15856, #15857).
4566
7cbcdb36
SP
4567* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4568 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4569
82bab04b 4570* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 4571 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 4572
c5f840fd
MB
4573* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4574
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CD
4575* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4576 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 4577
3e181dda 4578* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 4579
8a05c252
CL
4580* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4581
6055173a
JM
4582* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4583 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4584 for which the C library was built.
4585
b125d3e5
JM
4586* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4587 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4588 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4589 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4590 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4591 in the following circumstances:
4592
4593 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4594
4595 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4596 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4597
d4f66d37
JM
4598* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4599 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4600
3e181dda
CD
4601* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4602 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 4603
ffb89e53
AO
4604* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4605
5d29ccce
SP
4606* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4607 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4608
8b7d57cd 4609* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
4610
4611* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 4612
fd712ef3 4613* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 4614
c688b419
JM
4615* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4616 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4617 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4618 disable some of those declarations.
4619
7011c262 4620* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
4621 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4622 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
4623
4624* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4625 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
4626
4627* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4628 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4629 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4630 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4631 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4632 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4633 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4634 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4635 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4636 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4637 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4638 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4639 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
4640\f
4641Version 2.18
4642
4643* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4644
17db6e8d 4645 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
4646 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4647 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
4648 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4649 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4650 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4651 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4652 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4653 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4654 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4655 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4656 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4657 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4658 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
4659
4660* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4661 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4662 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4663 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4664 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4665 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 4666
5b535ac4
AS
4667* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4668 #15078).
4669
1cef1b19
AS
4670* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4671 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 4672
55e4107b
SP
4673* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4674 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4675 destructor calls to glibc.
4676
e5c74c63
SP
4677* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4678 output.
4679
4680* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4681 non-x86 architectures.
4682
e7521973
JM
4683* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4684
4685* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4686
4687* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4688 Richard Henderson.
4689
4690* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4691
4692* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4693 Richard Henderson.
4694
4695* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4696 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4697
8cfdb7e0
SP
4698* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4699
57267616
TS
4700* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4701 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 4702
c204ab28
SP
4703* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4704 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 4705
0748546f
PE
4706* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4707 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4708 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4709
61dd6208
SP
4710* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4711 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4712 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
4713
4714* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4715 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4716 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4717 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4718 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
4719
4720* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4721 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4722
4723* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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JM
4724\f
4725Version 2.17
4726
4727* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4728
80ceeaee 4729 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
4730 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4731 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4732 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4733 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4734 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4735 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4736 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4737 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4738 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4739 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4740 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4741 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4742 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4743 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 4744
95b4f1b6
SE
4745* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4746
14bc93a9
JL
4747* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4748 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 4749
b54eb3cb
JM
4750* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4751 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4752
7e2bd01f
MS
4753* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4754
08f43f9b
AK
4755* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4756 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4757 zEnterprise z196.
4758 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4759
84b3fd84
FW
4760* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4761 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4762 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4763
815e6fa3
GB
4764* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4765 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4766
400726de
MK
4767* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4768 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4769
7aab07e4 4770* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 4771 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 4772
15d0da8c
WS
4773* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4774 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4775
3cc3ef96
RM
4776* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4777 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
4778 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4779 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 4780
b54eb3cb
JM
4781* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4782 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4783
85429b1a 4784* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 4785 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
4786 default.
4787
b54eb3cb
JM
4788* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4789 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4790 information in --help and --version output.
4791
050af9c4
SP
4792* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4793 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4794 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4795
89a3ad0b
AO
4796* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4797 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4798 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4799 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4800 when the mode is enabled.
4801
6e6249d0
RM
4802* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4803 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4804 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4805 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4806 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4807 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4808 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 4809
d9286582
NK
4810* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4811 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
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4812\f
4813Version 2.16
4814
4815* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4816
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4817 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4818 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4819 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4820 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4821 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4822 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4823 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4824 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4825 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4826 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4827 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4828 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4829 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4830 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4831 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4832 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4833 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4834 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4835 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4836 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4837 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4838 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4839 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 4840
a086b4d6
L
4841* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4842 configuring glibc with:
4843 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 4844 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
4845 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4846
380d7e87
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4847* ISO C11 support:
4848
4849 + define static_assert
4850
4851 + do not declare gets
4852
4853 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4854
4855 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4856 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4857 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4858 implementation.
8d44e150 4859
74033a25 4860 + timespec_get added
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4861
4862 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 4863
ac097f5c
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4864 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4865
16dd419d
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4866 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4867
9dc4e1fb 4868* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
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4869
4870* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
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4871
4872* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4873 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
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4874
4875* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4876 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
4877
4878* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4879 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4880 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4881 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4882 existing applications.
ffb7875d 4883
21708942 4884* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
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4885 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4886 before 2.6.
83678f76 4887
edb00e4d
RH
4888* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4889 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4890 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4891
83678f76 4892* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
4893
4894* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4895 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4896 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4897 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4898 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
4899
4900* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4901
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4902* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4903 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
4904
4905* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4906
4907* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4908 without a previously built glibc.
4909
4910* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4911 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4912
4913* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4914 now supported for ARM processors.
4915
4916* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4917 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4918 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4919
4920* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4921
4922* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4923 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4924 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4925 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
4926
4927* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4928 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4929 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4930 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
4931
4932* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4933 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4934 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4935 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4936 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4937
4938* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4939 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4940 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4941 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 4942\f
e80fab37 4943Version 2.15
11988f8f 4944
c0244a9d
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4945* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4946
aebae053
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4947 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4948 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4949 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4950 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4951 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4952 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4953 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 4954
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4955* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4956 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
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4957
4958* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4959 and support for initgroups lookups.
4960 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
4961
4962* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4963 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
4964
4965* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4966 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 4967
fc2ee42a
LD
4968* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4969 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 4970 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 4971
d42964a0 4972* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
4973 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4974
1d3e4b61
UD
4975* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4976 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
4977 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4978
c55fbd1e
UD
4979* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4980 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
UD
4981
4982* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4983 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
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4984
4985* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4986 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
UD
4987
4988* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4989 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
UD
4990
4991* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4992 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4993
4994* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4995 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
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4996
4997* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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4998
4999* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5000 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 5001
f0b264f1
AZ
5002* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5003 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 5004
6b64057b 5005* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 5006\f
dded88cd 5007Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 5008
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5009* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5010
553149f6 5011 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 5012 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 5013 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 5014 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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5015 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5016 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5017 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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5018 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5019 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 5020 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 5021
7b57bfe5
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5022* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5023 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5024 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 5025 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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5026
5027 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
a0446976
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5028 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5029 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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5030 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5031
c6489db3 5032* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 5033 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 5034
72d1dddb 5035* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 5036 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
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5037
5038* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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5039
5040* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5041 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
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5042
5043* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5044 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5045 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5046 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
9f94d2ea 5047\f
4828935d
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5048Version 2.13
5049
ac2b484c
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5050* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5051
c30b7ee2
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5052 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5053 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5054 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5055 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5056 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 5057
10b3bedc 5058* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 5059
ac2b484c 5060* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 5061
e9f82e0d
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5062* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5063 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 5064 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4828935d 5065\f
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5066Version 2.12
5067
d36b9613
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5068* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5069
2e0fb521
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5070 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5071 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5072 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5073 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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5074 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5075 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5076 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 5077 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
86a4c67f
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5078
5079* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 5080
ee1a7fab
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5081* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5082
5e4295fb
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5083* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5084
5085* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5086 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5087 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5088
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5089* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5090 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5091 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5092 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5093 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5094
d36b9613 5095* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
b50f8e42
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5096\f
5097Version 2.11
5098
d36b9613
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5099* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5100
5101 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5102 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5103 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5104 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5105 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5106 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5107
3a83202d
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5108* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5109 mkostemps64
3d5243d4
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5110 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5111
24ab9c76 5112* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
b50f8e42
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5113 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5114
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5115* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5116 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5117
51a71cf0
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5118* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5119
0122f28e 5120* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 5121 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 5122 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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5123 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5124
9d36a6c4 5125 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
0122f28e
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5126 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5127
9d36a6c4
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5128* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5129 strstr, strcasestr.
5130 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5131
5132* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5133 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5134
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5135* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5136 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5137
5138* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5139 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5140
5141* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5142 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5143 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5144 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5145 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5146 necessity is every process again.
5147 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5148
9d36a6c4
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5149* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5150 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5151
5152* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5153 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5154
4bc1b896
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5155* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5156 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5157 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5158
9dd5b8a1 5159* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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5160\f
5161Version 2.10
5162
d36b9613
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5163* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5164
5165 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5166 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5167 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5168 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5169 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5170
bb066545 5171* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
e109c612
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5172 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5173
425ce2ed 5174* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 5175 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 5176
1fdd89a7 5177* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 5178 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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5180* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5181 now in POSIX.
77db439e 5182
1f04d005 5183* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 5184 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5186* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5187 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5188
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5189* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5190 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5191
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5192* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5193 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5194
5195* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5196 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5197 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5198
735be400 5199* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 5200
84aa52d7 5201* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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5202 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5203
5204* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5205 and extend existing format specifiers.
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5206 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5207
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5208* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5209 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5210
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5211* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5212 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5213 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5214 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5215 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5216 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5219
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5221
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5222 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5223 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5224 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5225 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5226 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
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5229 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5230
5231* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5232 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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5234* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5235 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5237* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5238 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5239 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5240
5241* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5242 Implemented by Eric Blake.
e038616f 5243
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5245
5246* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 5247 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5249* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5250 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5251 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5252 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5253
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5254* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5255 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5257* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5258 Sinhala)
48b22986 5259 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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5261* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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5264
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5266
5267 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5268 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5269 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5270 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5271 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5272 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5273 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5274
e038616f 5275* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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5279* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5280 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5281
5282* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5283
5284* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5285 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5286
5287* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5288 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5289
5290* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5291 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5292 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5293
5294* Faster memset for x86-64.
5295 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5296
5297* Faster memcpy on x86.
5298 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5299
5300* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5301 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5303* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 5304 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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5306Version 2.7
5307
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5308* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5309
5310 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5311 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5312 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5313 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5314 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5315
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5316* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5317 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5318
5319* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5320
5321* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5322 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5323 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5324
5325* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5326 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5327
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5329 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5330
5331* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5332
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5333* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5334 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5335
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5336* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5337 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5338
5339* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5340 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5341
5342* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5343
5344* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5345 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5347* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5348 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5349 yo_NG.
5350
5351+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5352 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5356* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5357
5358 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5359 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5360 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5361 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5362 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5363 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5364 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5365 4702, 4858
5366
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5370
b21fa963 5371* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5374
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5375* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5376
5377 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5378 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5379 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5380 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5381 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5382 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5383 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5384 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5385 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5386
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5388 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5389 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5391* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5392 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5393
871b9158 5394* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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5395
5396* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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5398* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5399 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5400 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 5401 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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5402 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5403
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5405 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5406 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5407 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5408
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5409* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5410 Ulrich Drepper.
5411
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5412* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5413
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5414* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5415 Ulrich Drepper.
5416
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5417* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5418
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5419* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5420 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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5422Version 2.4
5423
5424* More overflow detection functions.
5425
5426* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5427 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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5429 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5430 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5431 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5432 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5433 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5434 by Masahide Washizawa.
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5436* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5437 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5439* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5440 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5441 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5442 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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5444* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5445 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5446
5447* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5448
5449* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5450 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5451 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5452
5453* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5454 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5455
5456* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5457 for compatibility with some other systems.
5458
5459* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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5461Version 2.3.6
5462
5463* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5464
5465 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5466 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5467 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5468 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5469 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5470 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5471
5a82c748 5472 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5474* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5475
5476* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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5478Version 2.3.5
5479
5480* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5481
5482 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5483 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5484 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5485 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5486
5a82c748 5487 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5489Version 2.3.4
5490
5491* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5492 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5494* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5495 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5496 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5497
5498* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5499 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5500
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5502 efficiently.
5503 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5504
5505* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5506 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5507 handling data.
5508
5509* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5510 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 5511 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5513* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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5514 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5515
5516* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5517 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5518 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5519 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5520
5521* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5522 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5523 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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5524 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5525
5526* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5527 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5528 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5529 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5530 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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5532Version 2.3.3
5533
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5534* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5535 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5536
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5537* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5538 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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5542
5543* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5544 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5546* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5547 by Roland McGrath.
5548
c5af724c 5549* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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5550 and Ulrich Drepper.
5551
5552* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5553 RFC 3484.
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5556
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5557* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5558 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5559 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5560 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5561 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5562 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5563 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5564 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5565 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5566
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5567* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5568 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5569 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5570
5571* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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5572
5573* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5574 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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5576* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5577 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5578
52a16e58 5579* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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5581* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5582 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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5583
5584* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5585 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5586 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5587 of weak definition in ld.so.
5588
5589* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5590 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5591
5592* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5593 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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5597* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5598 charsets.
5599
5600* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5601 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 5603* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 5604 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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5606* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5607 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 5608
bb0ec5bd 5609* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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5610 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5611 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5613* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5614 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 5615
bb0ec5bd 5616* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
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5618
5619* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5620 Unicode 3.2.
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5622* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5623 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 5624
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5625* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5626 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5627 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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5628
5629* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 5630 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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5631
5632* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5633 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5634 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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5635
5636* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5637 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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5638
5639* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5640 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5641 and Ulrich Drepper.
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5642
5643* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
5644\f
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5645Version 2.2.6
5646
5647* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5648 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5649
5650* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5651 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
03a2c647 5652\f
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5653Version 2.2.5
5654
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5655* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5656 128-bit long double format.
a8ae31c2 5657
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5658* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5659 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 5660
ad2e4f18 5661* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 5662
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5663* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5664
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5665* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5666 as well.
5667
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5668* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5669 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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5670
5671* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
7d0c5823 5672\f
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5673Version 2.2.4
5674
2995f70e 5675* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 5676 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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5677
5678* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5679 support Unicode 3.1.
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5680
5681* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5682 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 5683
69d5f925 5684* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 5685
69d5f925 5686* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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5687 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5688 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5689
5690* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5691 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5692
5693* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5694 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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5695
5696* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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5698Version 2.2.3
5699
1746f2b0 5700* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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5701 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5702 in float, double, and long double format.
5703
f128331c 5704* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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5705 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5706 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 5707
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5708* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5709 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5710 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5711 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5712
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5713* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5714 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5715 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5716
5717* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5718 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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5719
5720* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5721 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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5722
5723* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5724 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5725 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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5726
5727* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5728 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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5729
5730* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5731 of functions for Linux/x86.
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5732
5733* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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5735Version 2.2.2
5736
464d97ec 5737* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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5738 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5739 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5740 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5741 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5742 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5743 other headers.
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5744
5745* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5746 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5747
5748* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5749 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5750 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5751 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5752
5753* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5754 locales. While
5755
5756 locale -a
5757
5758 only lists the names of the supported locales
5759
5760 locale -a --verbose
5761
5762 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5763 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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5765Version 2.2.1
5766
5767* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5768 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5769 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5770 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5771 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5772
5773 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5774
5775 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5776
5777 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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5778
5779* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5780 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5781 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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5782
5783* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5784 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5785
5786* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5787 changed from the default "C" locale.
5788
5789* The usual bug fixes.
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5791Version 2.2
5792
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5793* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5794 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5795 is in progress.
5796
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5797* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5798
793bd4d9 5799* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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5801 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5802 obviously requires a database library being available.
5803
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5804* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5805
abbffdf9 5806* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 5807
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5808* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5809 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5810
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5811* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5812
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5813* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5814 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5815 and Mark Kettenis.
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5816
5817 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5818 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5819 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 5820
a00c3ca9 5821 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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5822 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5823
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5824* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5825 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5826 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5827
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5828* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5829 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5830 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5831 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5832
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5833 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5834 structures for the wide character tables.
5835
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5836* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5837
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5838* The utmp daemon has been removed.
5839
5840* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5841
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5842* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5843 and Yutaka Niibe.
5844
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5845* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5846
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5847* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5848
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5849* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5850
5851* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5852
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5853* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5854
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5855* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5856 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5857 implemented for Linux.
5858
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5859* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5860 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5861 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5862 versions.
5863
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5864* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5865 Masahide Washizawa.
5866
8f3f1e09 5867* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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5869Version 2.1.3
5870
5871* bug fixes
5872
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5873\f
5874Version 2.1.2
5875
5876* bug fixes
5877
28f540f4 5878\f
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5879Version 2.1.1
5880
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5881* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5882
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5883* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5884
407d26b7 5885* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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5886
5887* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5888
407d26b7 5889* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 5890
407d26b7 5891* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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5892
5893* Update timezone data files.
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5895* lots of charmaps corrections
5896
5897* some new locale definitions and charmaps
5898
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5900Version 2.1
5901
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5902* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5903 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5904 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5905 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5906 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5907 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5908
c84142e8 5909* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 5910 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 5911
1fb05e3d 5912* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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5913 symbol level.
5914
5915* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5916 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 5917
cbdee279 5918* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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5919
5920* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 5921 numbers.
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cbdee279 5923* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 5924
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5925* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5926 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 5927
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5928* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5929 library.
5930
e61abf83 5931* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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5932 functions from ISO C 9X.
5933
5934* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5935 real valued functions.
e61abf83 5936
a5a0310d 5937* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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5939* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5940
5941* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 5942
440d13e2 5943* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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5944
5945* Optimized string functions have been added.
5946
5947* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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5948
5949* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5951* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5952 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5953
5954 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5955 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5956
0dee6738 5957 user system wall
48244d09 5958
0dee6738 5959 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 5960
0dee6738 5961 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 5962
0dee6738 5963 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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5965 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5966
5967 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5968
5969 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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5971 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5972 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 5973 horribly slow.
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5975 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5976 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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5978* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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5979
5980* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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5981
5982* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5983 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5984
5985* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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5987* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5988 Bambrough.
5989
5990* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5991 latest draft standards.
5992
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5993* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5994
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5995* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5996~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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6000argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6001argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6002argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6003argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6004argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6005argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6006argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6007argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6008argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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6009authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6010authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6011authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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6012backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6013backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6014backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6015cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
6016cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6017cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6018cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6019cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6020cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6021capget NEW: kernel
6022capset NEW: kernel
6023carg NEW: ISO C 9x
6024cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
6025cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
6026casin NEW: ISO C 9x
6027casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6028casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6029casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6030casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6031casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6032catan NEW: ISO C 9x
6033catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6034catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6035catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6036catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6037catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6040ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6041ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6042ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6043ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6044ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6045cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
6046cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
6047cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
6048cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
6049cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6050cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6051clearerr_locked REMOVED
6052clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6053clog NEW: ISO C 9x
6054clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6055clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6056clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6057clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
6058clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
6059conj NEW: ISO C 9x
6060conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
6061conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
6062cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
6063cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
6064cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
6065cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
6066cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6067cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6068creal NEW: ISO C 9x
6069crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6070creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6071creat64 NEW: LFS
6072csin NEW: ISO C 9x
6073csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6074csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6075csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6076csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6077csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6078csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
6079csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6080csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6081ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
6082ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6083ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6084ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6085ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6086ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6087des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6088ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6089endutxent NEW: Unix98
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6090exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6091exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6092exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6093exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6094exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6095exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6096fattach NEW: STREAMS
6097fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6098fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
6099fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
6100fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
6101feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6102fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6103fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6104fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6105feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6106feof_locked REMOVED
6107feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6108ferror_locked REMOVED
6109fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6110fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6111fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6112fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6113feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6114fflush_locked REMOVED
6115ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
6116ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
6117fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
6118fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6119fileno_locked REMOVED
6120fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6121fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6122fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6123fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6124fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6125fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6126fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6127fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6128fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 6129fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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6130fopen64 NEW: LFS
6131fputc_locked REMOVED
6132fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6133fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6134freopen64 NEW: LFS
6135fseeko NEW: Unix98
6136fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
6137fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
6138fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6139fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
6140ftello NEW: Unix98
6141ftello64 NEW: LFS
6142ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6143ftw64 NEW: LFS
6144fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6145gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6146gamma_r REMOVED
6147gammaf_r REMOVED
6148gammal_r REMOVED
6149getchar_locked REMOVED
6150getdate NEW: Unix98
6151getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6152getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6153getmsg NEW: STREAMS
6154getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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6156getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6157getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6158getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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6159getutxent NEW: Unix98
6160getutxid NEW: Unix98
6161getutxline NEW: Unix98
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6162glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6163globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6164gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6165gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6166grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 6167host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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6168iconv NEW: iconv
6169iconv_close NEW: iconv
6170iconv_open NEW: iconv
6171if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6172if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6173if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6174if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6175in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6176in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6177inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6178isastream NEW: STREAMS
6179iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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6180key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6181key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6182key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6183key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6184key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6185key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6186key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6187key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6188key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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6189llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6190llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6191llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6192llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6193llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6194llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6195log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6196log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6197log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6198lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6199lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6200lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6201lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6202lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6203lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6204lseek64 NEW: LFS
6205makecontext NEW: Unix98
6206mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6207mmap64 NEW: LFS
6208moncontrol REMOVED
6209modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6210nan NEW: ISO C 9x
6211nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6212nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6213nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6214nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6215nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6216netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6217netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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6218nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6219nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6220nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6221nftw NEW: Unix98
6222nftw64 NEW: LFS
6223open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 6224passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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6225pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
6226pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6227pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6228pread NEW: Unix98
6229pread64 NEW: LFS
6230printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6231printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6232profil_counter REMOVED
6233pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6234pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6235ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6236ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6237putc_locked REMOVED
6238putchar_locked REMOVED
6239putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6240putmsg NEW: STREAMS
6241putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 6242pututxline NEW: Unix98
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6243pwrite NEW: Unix98
6244pwrite64 NEW: LFS
6245readdir64 NEW: LFS
6246readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6247remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6248remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6249remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6250round NEW: ISO C 9x
6251roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6252roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6253rtime NEW: GNU ext.
6254scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6255scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6256scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6257scandir64 NEW: LFS
6258sendfile NEW: kernel
6259setcontext NEW: Unix98
6260setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 6261setutxent NEW: Unix98
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6262sighold NEW: Unix98
6263sigignore NEW: Unix98
6264sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6265sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6266sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6267sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6268sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6269sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6270sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6271sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6272statfs64 NEW: LFS
6273statvfs NEW: Unix98
6274statvfs64 NEW: LFS
6275strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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6276strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6277strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6278strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 6279svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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6280svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6281svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6282swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6283tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6284tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6285tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6286tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6287tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6288tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
6289trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
6290truncate64 NEW: LFS
6291truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6292truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6293umount2 NEW: kernel
6294unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 6295updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 6296user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6297utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 6298versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 6299versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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6300waitid NEW: Unix98
6301wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6302wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6303wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6304wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6305wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6306wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6307wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6308wcswcs NEW: Unix98
6309wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6310wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6311write_profiling REMOVED
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6312xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6313xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6314xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6315xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6316xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6317xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6318xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6319xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6320xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6321xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6322xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6323xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6324xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 6325xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 6326xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 6327~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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6329Version 2.0.6
6330
6331* more bug fixes
6332
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6334Version 2.0.5
6335
6336* more bug fixes
6337
6338* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6339
6340* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6341
6342* rewrite of cbrt function
6343
6344* update of timezone data
6345\f
6346Version 2.0.4
6347
6348* more bug fixes
6349\f
6350Version 2.0.3
6351
6352* more bug fixes
c84142e8 6353\f
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6354Version 2.0.2
6355
6356* more bug fixes
6357
6358* add atoll function
6359
6360* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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6361
6362* fix math functions
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6363\f
6364Version 2.0.1
6365
6366* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6367
6368* dynamic loader preserves all registers
6369
6370* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6371 the ELF dynamic loader.
6372
6373* support for parallel builds is improved
6374\f
40a4b79f 6375Version 2.0
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6377* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6378 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6379 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
6380
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6381* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6382 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6383 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6384 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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6385 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6386 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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6387 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6388 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6389 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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6390 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6391 files in the ELF format.
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6392
6393* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6394 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6395
6396* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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6397 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6398 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6399 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6400 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6401 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6402 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6403 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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6404 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6405 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6406 about dynamically linked binaries.
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6408* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6409 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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6410 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6411 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6412 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 6413
f7eac6eb 6414* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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6415 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6416 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6417 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6418 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6419
6420* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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6422* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6423 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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6424 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6425 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6426 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6427 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6428 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6429 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6430 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 6431
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6432* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6433 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6434 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6435
6436* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6437 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6438 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6439
6440* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6441 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6442 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6443 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6444
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6445* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6446 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6447 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6448
6449* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6450 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6451 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6452
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6453* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6454 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6455
f7eac6eb 6456* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 6457 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 6458 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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6459 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6460
6461* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6462 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6463 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 6464
71733723 6465* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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6466 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6467 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6468 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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6469 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6470 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 6471 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 6472 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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6473
6474* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6475 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6476 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6477 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6478 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6479 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6480 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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6481
6482* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6483 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6484 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6485 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6486 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6487 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6488
6489* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6490 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6491
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6492* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6493 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6494 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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6496* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6497
6498* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6499 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6500 their use is discouraged.
6501
6502* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6503 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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6505* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6506 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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6507
6508* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6509 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6510
6511* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6512 see <dirent.h>.
6513
6514* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6515 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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6516 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6517 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6518 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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6519
6520* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6521 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6522 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6523 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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6524
6525* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6526 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6527
6528* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6529 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6530 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6531 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6532 number generator.
6533
6534* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6535 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6536
6537* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6538 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6539
71733723 6540* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 6541 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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6542 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6543 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 6544
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6545* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6546
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6547* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6548 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6549 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6550
6551* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6552 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 6554* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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6555 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6556 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6557 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6558
6559* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6560 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6561 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6562 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6563 programs already written to use it.)
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6564
6565* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6566 constants.
6567
6568* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6569 with 4.4 BSD.
6570
6571* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6572 a given effective group ID.
6573
6574* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6575 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6576 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6577 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6578
6579* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 6580 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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6581 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6582 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6583 doing the same thing.
6584
6585* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6586 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6587
6588* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 6589 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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6590
6591* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6592
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6593* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6594 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6595 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 6596 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 6597 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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6598
6599* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6600 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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6601
6602* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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6603 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6604 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6605 function.
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6606
6607* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6608
6609* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6610 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6611 strings.
6612
6613* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6614 and writing the utmp file.
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6615
6616* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6617 Thorsten Kukuk.
6618
6619* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6620 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6621 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6622
6623* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6624 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6625
6626* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6627 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6628 specification.
6629
6630* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6631 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6632 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6633 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6634
6635* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6636 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6637 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6638
6639* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6640 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6641 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6642 expression matcher.
6643
6644* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6645 functionality.
6646
6647* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6648 by Ulrich Drepper.
6649
6650* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6651
6652* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6653 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6654 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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6656Version 1.09
6657
6658* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6659
6660* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6661 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6662
6663* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6664 want to put themselves in the background.
6665
6666* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6667 run without an operating system.
6668
6669* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6670 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6671
6672* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6673 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6674
6675* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6676
6677* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6678 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6679 have YP (aka NIS).
6680
6681* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6682 conventions.
6683
6684* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6685 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6686\f
6687Version 1.08
6688
6689* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6690 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6691 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6692
6693* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6694 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6695
6696* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6697 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6698
6699* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6700
6701* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6702
6703* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6704 compatibility.
6705
6706* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6707 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6708 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6709
6710* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6711
6712* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6713 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6714 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6715
6716* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6717 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6718 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6719 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6720 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6721 on a block).
6722
6723* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6724 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6725 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6726 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6727 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6728 cross-compiler.
6729
6730* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6731 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6732\f
6733Version 1.07
6734
6735* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6736 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6737
6738* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6739 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6740 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6741
6742* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6743 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6744 address of the last character written.
6745
6746* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6747 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6748
6749* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6750 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6751
6752* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6753 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6754 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6755 you dereference this pointer.
6756
6757* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6758 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6759
6760* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6761 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6762 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6763 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6764
6765* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6766 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6767 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6768 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6769\f
6770Version 1.06
6771
6772* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6773 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6774 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6775 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 6776 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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6777
6778* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6779
6780* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6781
6782* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6783 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6784
6785* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6786 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6787
6788* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6789 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6790
6791* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6792 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6793 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6794 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6795 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6796
6797* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6798 to the error code in `errno'.
6799
6800* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6801 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6802 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6803 malloc'd string.
6804
6805* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6806 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6807 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6808
6809* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6810 uniquely-named temporary file.
6811\f
6812Version 1.05
6813
6814* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6815 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6816 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6817
6818* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6819 characters.
6820
6821* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6822 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6823
6824* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6825\f
6826Version 1.04
6827
6828* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6829 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6830 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6831 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6832
6833* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6834 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6835 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6836
6837* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6838 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6839
6840* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6841 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6842 made itself into a shared library.
6843
6844* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6845 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6846
6847* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6848 with limited length.
6849
6850* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6851
6852* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6853
6854* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6855
6856* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6857 function for traversing a directory tree.
6858
6859* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6860 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6861 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6862 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6863
6864* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6865 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6866
6867* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6868
6869* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6870 things to your strings.
6871
6872* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6873
6874* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6875 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6876 supporting those systems.
6877
6878* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6879 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6880 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6881 configuration files.
6882
6883* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6884 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6885
6886* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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6887 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6888 in <strings.h>.)
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6889
6890* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6891 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6892 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6893 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6894 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6895 required storage is not available.
6896
6897* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6898 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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6899
6900* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6901 latest files released from Berkeley.
6902\f
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6905
6906 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
6907 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
6908 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
6909 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
6910
6911 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
6912 of this document, or of portions of it,
6913 under the above conditions, provided also that they
6914 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
6915\f
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