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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
6d7e8eda 2Copyright (C) 1992-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.38
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10Major new features:
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12* When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
13 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
14 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
15 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
16 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
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17 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
18 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
19 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
20 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf.
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22* PRIb* and PRIB* macros from C2X have been added to <inttypes.h>.
23
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24* printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
25 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
26 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
27 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
28 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
29 specified in draft ISO C2X.
30
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31* A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
32 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
33
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34* Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
35 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
36
37 - x86_64-gnu
38
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39* Added libmvec vector math library support to AArch64. It requires
40 GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via --disable-mathvec,
41 however that is not a supported configuration as it changes the ABI.
42 The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI, they are declared
43 in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
44
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45* The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
46 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
47
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48Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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50* In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
51 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
52 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
53 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
54 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
55 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
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57* The --disable-experimental-malloc is no longer available. The per-thread
58 cache can still be disable per-application using tunables
59 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
60
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61* The configure option --enable-tunables has been removed. The tunable
62 feature is now always enabled.
63
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64Changes to build and runtime requirements:
65
66 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
67
68Security related changes:
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70 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
71 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
72 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
73 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
74 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
75 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
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76
77The following bugs are resolved with this release:
78
79 [The release manager will add the list generated by
80 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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82Version 2.37
83
84Major new features:
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86* The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
87 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
88 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
89 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
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90
91Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
92
90d58fe8 93* The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
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94 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
95 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
96 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
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98Security related changes:
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100 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
101 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
102 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
103 portion of the contents of the heap.
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104
105The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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107 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
108 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
109 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
110 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
111 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
112 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
113 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
114 redirection headers
115 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
116 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
117 first if in a cycle
118 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
119 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
120 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
121 gethostbyname and other functions
122 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
123 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
124 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
125 wrong family
126 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
127 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
128 failed!
129 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
130 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
131 FAIL_UNSUPPORTED
132 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
133 segfault on alpha
134 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
135 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
136 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
137 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
138 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
139 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
140 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
141 reuses namespace
142 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
143 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
144 futexes on qemu-user
145 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
146 printed
147 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
148 whitespace
149 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
150 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
151 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
152 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
153 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
154 file support
155 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
156 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
157 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
158 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
159 cache is enabled
160 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
161 BMI2 instructions
162 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
163 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
164 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
165 platforms
166 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
167 optimizations
168 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
169 thousands grouping
170 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
171 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
172 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
173 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
174 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
175 aux.S: No such file or directory)
176 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
177 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
178 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
179 coincides with offset change
180 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
181 length in fortify mode
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183Version 2.36
184
185Major new features:
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187* Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
188 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
189 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
190 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
191 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
192 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
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194* On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
195 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
7f0d9e61 196 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
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198* On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
199 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
200 by the pidfd.
201
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202* On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
203 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
204 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
205 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
206
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207* The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
208 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
209 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
210 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
211 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
212 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
213 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
214 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
215 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
216 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
217 validation by applications.
218
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219* On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
220 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
221 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
222 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
78a408ee 223 with namespaces.
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225* localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
226 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
227 unpredictable output.
228
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229* Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
230 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
231 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
232 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
233 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
234 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
235 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
236 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
237
6f4e0fcf 238* The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
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239 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
240 quality randomness from the kernel.
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3a380458 242* Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
243 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
244 ABI is supported:
245
246 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
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248 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
249
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250Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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252* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
253 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
254 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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256* The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
257 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
258 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
259 when libc.so is issued directly.
260
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261* On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
262
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263The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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265 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
266 return different result with versioned "foo"
267 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
268 mess
269 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
270 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
271 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
272 calls dlclose
273 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
274 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
275 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
276 enforced
277 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
278 deadlock
279 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
280 format
281 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
282 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
283 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
284 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
285 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
286 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
287 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
288 other standards.
289 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
290 from the stack
291 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
292 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
293 (breaks test isolation)
294 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
295 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
296 __convert_scm_timestamps
297 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
298 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
299 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
300 missing libraries
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302 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
303 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
304 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
305 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
306 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
307 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
308 SUCCESS=MERGE
309 [28936] build: nm: No such file
310 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
311 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
312 clobbers errno
313 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
314 bench.
315 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
316 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
317 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
318 /proc/self/fd/
319 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
320 on ENOENT and EACCES
321 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
322 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
323 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
324 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
325 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
326 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
327 is promoted to global scope
328 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
329 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
330 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
331 broke ld.so
332 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
333 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
334 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
335 failure
336 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
337 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
338 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
339 before '__fortified_attr_access'
340 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
341 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
342 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
343 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
344 value for filling after \0
345 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
346 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
347 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
348 aware
349 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
350 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
351 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
352 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
353 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
354 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
355 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
356 line 184
357 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
358 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
359 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
360 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
361 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
362 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
363 missing on microblaze with largefile
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365Version 2.35
366
367Major new features:
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369* Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
370 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
371 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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373* Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
374 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
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376* Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
377 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
378 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
379 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
380 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
381 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
382 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
383 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
384 glibc, and must be installed.
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386* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
387 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
388 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
389
390 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
391 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
392
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393 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
394 fMxfmafNx functions.
395
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396* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
397 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
398 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
399 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
400 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
401 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
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403* <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
404 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
405 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
406 M_SQRT1_2f.
407
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408* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
409 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
410
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411* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
412 macro in <tgmath.h>.
413
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414* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
415
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416* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
417 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
418 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
419
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420* A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
421 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
422 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
423 object dependency cases.
424
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425* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
426 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
427 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
428 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
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430* ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
431 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
432 return value is only used for its boolean status.
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434* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
435 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
436 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
437 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
438 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
439 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
440 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
441 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
442 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
443 Restartable Sequences.
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445* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
446 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
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448* All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
449 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
450 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
451 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
452 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
453 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
454 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
455 configuration.
456
5f6d8d97 457* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
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458 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
459 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
460 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
461 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
462 huge pages.
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464* The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
465 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
466
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467* The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
468 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
469 address.
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472 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
473 ABI is supported:
474
475 - or1k-linux-gnu
476
477 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
478 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
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481 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
482 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
483 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
484 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
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487 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
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490 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
491 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
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494 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
495 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
496 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
497 bounds).
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500 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
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505 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
506 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
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509 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
510
511 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
512 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
513
514 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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519 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
520 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
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523 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
524 catching coredumps and backtraces.
525
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527 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
528 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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531 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
532 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
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535 support prelink PIE binaries.
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540 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
32ffd427 541 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
7f0d9e61 542 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
32ffd427 543 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
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546 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
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548 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
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550Security related changes:
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552 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
553 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
554 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
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556 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
557 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
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560 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
561 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
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563 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
564 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
565 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
566 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
567 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
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571 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
572 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
573 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
574 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
575 many dsos
576 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
577 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
578 degradation
579 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
580 loaded with dlmopen
581 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
582 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
583 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
584 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
585 ID whose lifetime has not ended
586 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
587 (CVE-2022-23219)
588 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
589 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
590 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
591 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
592 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
593 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
594 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
595 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
596 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
597 --enable-initfini-array
598 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
599 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
600 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
601 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
602 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
603 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
604 empty
605 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
606 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
607 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
608 built with ld.lld
609 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
610 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
611 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
612 2.34
613 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
614 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
615 robustness
616 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
617 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
618 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
619 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
620 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
621 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
622 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
623 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
624 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
625 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
626 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
627 file
628 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
629 only dynamic section
630 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
631 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
632 recvmsg()
633 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
634 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
635 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
636 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
637 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
638 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
639 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
640 C2X
641 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
642 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
643 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
644 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
645 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
646 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
647 globalmod1.so
648 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
649 systems with TIMESIZE=64
650 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
651 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
652 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
653 spurious NUL character on state reset
654 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
655 incorrect
656 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
657 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
658 execution test
659 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
660 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
661 hppa
662 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
663 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
664 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
665 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
666 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
667 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
668 crashes
669 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
670 binutils changes
671 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
672 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
673 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
674 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
675 is not useful
676 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
677 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
678 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
679 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
680 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
681 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
682 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
683 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
684 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
685 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
686 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
687 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
688 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
689 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
690 (CVE-2022-23218)
691 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
692 (CVE-2021-3999)
693 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
694 results (CVE-2021-3998)
695 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
696 in Systemtap probes
697 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
698 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
699 x86-64-baseline
700 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
701 with no closing ]
702 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
703 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
704 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
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709Major new features:
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712 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
713 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
714 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
715 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
716 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
717 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
718 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
719 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
720 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
721 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
722 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
723 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
724 potentially exposing application bugs.
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727 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
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729 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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731* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
732 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
57fb02b2 733 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
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735 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
736 Arm SVE.
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739 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
740 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
741
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743 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
744 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
745 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
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750 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
751 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
752 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
753 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
754
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756 --disable-scv configure option.
757
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759 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
760 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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762 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
763 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
764 version of 5.1.
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767 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
768 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
769 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
770 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
771 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
772 that directory.
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775 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
776
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780 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
781 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
782 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
783 is currently a GNU extension.
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786 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
787
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790 although it is also present in other systems.
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793 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
794 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
795 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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798 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
799 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
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804 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
805 instead.
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808 programs should use the equivalent standard function
809 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
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812 programs should use the equivalent standard function
813 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
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816 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
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819
820* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
821 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
822 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
823 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
824 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
825 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
826 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
827 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
828 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
829 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
830 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
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833 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
834 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
835 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
836 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
837 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
838 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
839 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
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842 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
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845 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
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847 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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850 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
851 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
852 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
853 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
854 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
855 upgrade or downgrade process.
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858 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
859 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
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862 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
863 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
864 no longer have any effect on malloc.
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867 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
868 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
869 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
870 this functionality back.
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873 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
874 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
875 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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878 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
879 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
880 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
881 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
882 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
883 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
884 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
885 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
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890 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
891 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
892 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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894Security related changes:
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897 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
898 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
899 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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902 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
903 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
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906 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
907 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
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912 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
913 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
914 given integer (closefrom)
915 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
916 name containing multi-byte character(s)
917 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
918 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
919 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
920 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
921 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
922 random thread
923 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
924 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
925 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
926 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
927 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
928 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
929 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
930 manual is incorrect
931 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
932 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
933 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
934 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
935 pthread_create and dlopen
936 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
937 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
938 when non-root user changes priority
939 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
940 dlopen
941 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
942 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
943 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
944 ordered correctly
945 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
946 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
947 data.
948 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
949 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
950 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
951 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
952 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
953 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
954 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
955 the right free implementation
956 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
957 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
958 shm_open to pick wrong directory
959 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
960 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
961 protector=all)
962 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
963 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
964 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
965 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
966 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
967 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
968 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
969 uninitialized
970 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
971 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
972 system calls
973 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
974 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
975 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
976 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
977 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
978 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
979 deployments
980 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
981 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
982 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
983 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
984 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
985 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
986 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
987 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
988 is present
989 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
990 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
991 protector=all
992 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
993 information for the current directory
994 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
995 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
996 dl_runtime_resolve_*
997 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
998 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
999 containers
1000 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
1001 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
1002 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
1003 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
1004 INT_MAX
1005 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
1006 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
1007 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
1008 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
1009 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
1010 tries resolving them lazily
1011 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
1012 libthread_db
1013 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
1014 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
1015 argument
1016 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1017 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1018 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1019 not set ENOMEM
1020 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1021 randomization
1022 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1023 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1024 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1025 IS_ERR_VALUE
1026 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1027 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1028 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1029 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1030 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1031 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1032 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1033 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1034 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1035 with n >= 0x80000000
1036 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1037 thread never allocated anything
1038 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1039 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1040 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1041 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1042 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1043 on older kernels
1044 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1045 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1046 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1047 AMD64 cpus
1048 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1049 terminator
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1054Major new features:
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1056* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1057 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1058 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
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1061 to change argv[0] string.
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1064 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1065 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1066 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1067 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1068 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1069 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1070 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1071 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1072
1073* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1074 information and library search path diagnostics.
1075
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1077 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1078 larger than fit in an integer.
1079
96203980 1080* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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1082* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1083 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1084
1085 - rv32imac ilp32
1086 - rv32imafdc ilp32
1087 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
1088
1089 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1090 2.28.
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1093 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1094 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1095 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1096 fortification.
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1101 mallinfo2 instead.
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1104 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1105 Instead, the default implementation is used.
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1108 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1109 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1110 prlimit.
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1113 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1114 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
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1117 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1118 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1119 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1120 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1121 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
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1124 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1125 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1126 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1127 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1128 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1129 loaded.
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1134 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
7f0d9e61 1135 attempts to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
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1137 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1138 perform any adjustments.
1139
1140* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1141 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1142 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1143 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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1148
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1152 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1153 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1154
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1155 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1156 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1157 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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1160 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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1163 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
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1168 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1169 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1170 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1171 AT_EACCESS
1172 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
597d0267 1173 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
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1175 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1176 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1177 with GCC
1178 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1179 stack-protector=all
1180 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1181 cases
1182 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1183 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1184 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1185 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1186 changing gnuc version
1187 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1188 incorrect
1189 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1190 bits
1191 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1192 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1193 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1194 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1195 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
7f0d9e61 1196 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
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1198 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1199 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1200 too much stack space
1201 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1202 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1203 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1204 with optimization.
1205 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1206 anymore
1207 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1208 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1209 non-FMA4 system
1210 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1211 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1212 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1213 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1214 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1215 getaddrinfo
1216 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1217 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1218 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1219 fault
1220 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1221 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1222 at the end of a memory mapping
1223 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1224 by the caller to the kernel
1225 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1226 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1227 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1228 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1229 monotonic clocks
1230 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1231 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1232 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1233 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1234 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1235 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1236 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1237 one element
1238 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1239 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1240 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1241 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1242 lazy bound
1243 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1244 PI mutexes
1245 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1246 not safe
1247 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1248 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1249 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1250 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1251 platform
1252 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1253 startup code
1254 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1255 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1256 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1257 protected
1258 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1259 only since 2.31
1260 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1261 locked
1262 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1263 aligned
1264 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1265 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1266 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1267 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1268 detection logic
1269 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1270 pclose(3))
1271 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1272 setup
1273 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1274 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1275 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1276 work
1277 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1278 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1279 [27177] dynamic-link:
1280 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1281 work
1282 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1283 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1284 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1285 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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1290Major new features:
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1293 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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1295
1296* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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1298* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1299 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1300 Three ABIs are supported:
1301
1302 - arc-linux-gnu
1303 - arc-linux-gnuhf
1304 - arceb-linux-gnu
1305
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1310 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1311
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1315 this option.
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1318 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1319 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1320
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1323 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
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1326 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1327 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1328 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1329 libpthread.
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1333 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1334 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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1336 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1337
1338 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1339 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1340
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1343 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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1345 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1346 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1347
1348 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1349 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
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1352 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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1354 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1355 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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1357 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1358 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1359 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1360 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1361 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1362 BTI compatible.
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1367 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1368 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1369 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1370 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1371 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1372 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
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1375 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1376 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1377 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1378 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1379 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1380 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 1381 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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1383
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1385 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1386 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1387 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1388 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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1390* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1391 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1392 was not declared in any header file.
1393
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1394* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1395 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1396 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1397 sigaction functions instead.
1398
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1400 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1401
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1402* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1403 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1404 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1405 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1406 strsignal instead.
1407
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1408* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1409 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 1410 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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1411 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1412 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1413
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1414* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1415 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1416 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1417 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1418
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1419* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1420 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1421 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1422 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1423 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1424 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1425 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
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1428 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1429 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1430 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1431 flavor of secure RPC.)
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1433* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1434 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1435 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1436 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1437 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1438 object, to enable the hooks.
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1440* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1441 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1442 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1443 LDAP.
1444
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1448 long double redirects.
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1450Security related changes:
1451
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1452 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1453 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1454 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1455
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1456 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1457 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1458 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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1460 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1461 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1462
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1463 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1464 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1465 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1466 TALOS-2020-1019).
1467
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1471 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1472 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1473 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1474 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1475 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1476 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1477 filtee has constructor
1478 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1479 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1480 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1481 character entities for infinity & pi
1482 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1483 segfaults in applications
1484 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
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1487 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1488 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1489 function with -mlong-double-64
1490 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1491 binding
1492 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1493 ld.so.cache
1494 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1495 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1496 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1497 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1498 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1499 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1500 linker
1501 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1502 dynamically loaded dsos
1503 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1504 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1505 access
1506 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1507 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1508 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1509 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1510 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1511 stale configuration forever
1512 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1513 (CVE-2020-10029)
1514 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1515 defaults to PIE
1516 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1517 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1518 (CVE-2020-6096)
1519 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1520 on 32 bit and old kernel
1521 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1522 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1523 Occitan
1524 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1525 amount of sigset_t bytes
1526 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1527 strings
1528 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1529 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1530 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1531 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1532 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1533 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1534 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1535 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1536 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1537 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1538 size_t
1539 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1540 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1541 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1542 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1543 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1544 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1545 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1546 cpu=power9
1547 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1548 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1549 segfault
1550 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1551 exiting detached thread
1552 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1553 for x32
1554 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1555 ERANGE
1556 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1557 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1558 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1559 dependencies in audit mode
1560 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1561 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1562 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1563 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1564 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1565 input
1566 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1567 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1568 preserve r2
1569 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1570 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1571 variables
1572 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1573 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1574 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1575 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1576 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1577 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1578 corruption in memset
1579
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1581Version 2.31
1582
1583Major new features:
1584
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1585* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1586 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1587 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1588 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1589 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1590 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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1592* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1593 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1594 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1595 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1596
69ca4b54 1597* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 1598 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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1599 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1600
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1601* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1602
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1603* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1604 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1605 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1606 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1607 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1608 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1609 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1610 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1611
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1614* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1615 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1616 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1617 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1618 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1619 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
0b8c2f95 1620
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1622 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1623 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1624
1625* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1626 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1627 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1628 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1629
1630* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1631 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1632 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1633 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1634 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1635 made this no longer practical.
1636
1637 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1638 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1639 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1640 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1641 release.)
1642
1643 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1644 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1645 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1646
1647 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1648 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1649 using clock_gettime instead.
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1651* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1652 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1653 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1654 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1655 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1656
1657 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1658 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1659 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1660 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1661
1662 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1663 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1664 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1665 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1666 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1667 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1668
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1669 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1670 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1671 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1672 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1673 offset API.
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1675* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1676 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1677 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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1679 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1680 configurations.
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1682* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1683 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1684 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1685 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1686 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1687
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1689 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1690 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1691 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1692 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1693 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1694 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1695 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1696
1697 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1698 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1699
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1700* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1701 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1702 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1703 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1704 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1705 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1706
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1708
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1710 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1711 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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1713* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1714 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1715 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1716
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1718
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1719 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1720 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1721
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1722 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1723 environment variable during program execution after a security
1724 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1725 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1726 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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1728The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1730 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1731 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1732 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1733 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1734 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1735 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1736 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1737 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1738 linking failure
1739 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1740 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1741 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1742 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1743 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1744 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1745 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1746 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1747 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1748 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1749 7408-2005
1750 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1751 with localedef
1752 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1753 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1754 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1755 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1756 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1757 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1758 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1759 utmp entries
1760 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1761 ABSOLUTE ABI
1762 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1763 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1764 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1765 (stringop-overflow error)
1766 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1767 functions other can lead to crashes
1768 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1769 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1770 unconditionally
1771 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1772 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1773 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1774 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1775 still can fail with an error
1776 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1777 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1778 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1779 initialized correctly
1780 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1781 -frewrite-includes
1782 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1783 value to an unsigned
1784 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1785 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1786 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1787 protection
1788 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1789 ifunc variant.
1790 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1791 al. for Clang++
1792 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1793 (Slovenian)
1794 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1795 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1796 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1797 with -std=c11
1798 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1799 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1800 part
1801 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1802 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1803 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1804 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1805 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1806 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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1810
1811Major new features:
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1813* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1814 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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1815 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1816
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1817* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1818 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1820* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1821 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1822 to the callback function.
1823
51ea67d5 1824* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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1826* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1827 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1828 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
1829
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1831
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1832* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1833 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1834 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1835 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1836 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
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1838* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1839 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1840 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1841 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1842 link time reference, is gone.
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1845 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1846 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1847 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1848 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1849 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1850 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1851 the clock choice at initialization time).
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1854 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1855 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
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1860 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1861 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1862 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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1864 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1865 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1866 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1867 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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1869* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1870 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1871 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1872 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1873 since glibc 2.17.
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1875* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1876 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
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1878* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1879 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1880
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1881* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1882 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1883
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1884* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1885 BIND_NOW flag.
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1887* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1888 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1889 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
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1891* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1892 header have been removed.
1893
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1894* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1895 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1896 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1897 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
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1902
1903 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1904 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1906Security related changes:
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1909 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1910 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1911 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1912 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1913 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1914 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1916 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1917 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1918 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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1922 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1923 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1924 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1925 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1926 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1927 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1928 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1929 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1930 invalid input drops valid char
1931 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1932 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1933 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1934 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1935 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1936 malloc.h.
1937 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1938 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1939 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1940 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1941 functions
1942 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1943 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1944 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1945 for long double = double
1946 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1947 long double = double
1948 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1949 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1950 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1951 long timeouts
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1953 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1954 checking for NULL.
1955 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1956 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1957 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1958 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1959 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1960 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1961 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1962 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1963 not the default "nor"
1964 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1965 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1966 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1967 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1968 compiler barriers.
1969 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1970 unnecessary librt dependencies
1971 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1972 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1973 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1974 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1975 unsorted chunk
1976 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1977 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1978 to R_SPARC_H44
1979 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1980 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1981 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1982 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1983 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1984 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1985 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1986 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1987 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1988 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1989 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1990 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1991 was not used
1992 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1993 tests
1994 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1995 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1996 time_t changes
1997 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1998 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1999 kernels and break testing
2000 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
2001 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
2002 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
2003 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
2004 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
2005 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
2006 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
2007 -O3 -march=skylake
2008 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
2009 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
2010 crash
2011 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
2012 linked glibc
2013 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
2014 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
2015 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2016 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2017 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2018 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2019 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2020 always implemented in the same library
2021 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2022 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2023 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2024 testroot
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2028
2029Major new features:
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2032 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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2034* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2035 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2036 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2037 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2038 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2039 configured location.
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424c4f60 2041* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
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2043* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2044 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2045
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2046* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2047 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2048 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2049 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2050 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2051 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2052 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2053 process actually does not use HTM).
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2055* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2056 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2057 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2058 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2059 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2060 of the same name.
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2062* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2063 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2064 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 2065 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
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2066 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2067
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2068* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2069 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2070 supported:
2071 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2072 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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2074* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2075 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2076 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2077 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2078 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2079 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2080 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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2083 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2084 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2085
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2086Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2087
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2088* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2089 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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2091* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2092 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2093 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2094 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2095
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2097 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2098 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2099 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2100 structures.
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2102* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2103 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2104 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2105 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2106 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2107 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2108
2109 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2110 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2111 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2112 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2113 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2114
2115 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2116 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2117 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2118
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2120
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2124 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2125
2126 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2127 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2128
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2130
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2131 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2132 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2133 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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2135 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2136 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2137 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2138 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2139 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2140
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2141 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2142 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2143 or command injection issues in applications.
2144
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2147 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2148 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2149 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2150 thousands
2151 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2152 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2153 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2154 --param options)
2155 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2156 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2157 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2158 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2159 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2160 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2161 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2162 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2163 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2164 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2165 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2166 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2167 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2168 pointer argument is non-NULL
2169 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2170 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2171 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2172 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2173 multithreads call popen
2174 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2175 and pthread_create fails.
2176 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2177 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2178 constructor
2179 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2180 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2181 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2182 source tree
2183 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2184 float
2185 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2186 one error
2187 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2188 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2189 linker
2190 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2191 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2192 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2193 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2194 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2195 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2196 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2197 filesystems
2198 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2199 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2200 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2201 functions
2202 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2203 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2204 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2205 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2206 have wrong type
2207 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2208 wrong type
2209 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2210 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2211 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2212 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2213 threads
2214 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2215 start.S
2216 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2217 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2218 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2219 powerpc64le
2220 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2221 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2222 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2223 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2224 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2225 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2226 strftime
2227 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2228 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2229 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2230 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2231 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2232 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2233 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2234 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2235 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2236 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2237 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2238 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2239 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2240 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2241 tcache size
2242 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2243 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2244 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2245 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2246 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2247 (CVE-2018-19591)
2248 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2249 nearest rounding mode
2250 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2251 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2252 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2253 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2254 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2255 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2256 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2257 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2258 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2259 error
2260 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2261 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2262 using GCC 8
2263 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2264 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2265 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2266 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2267 ppc64le
2268 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2269 expected result
2270 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2271 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
2272 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2273 sigaltstack
2274 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2275 answers will be rejected)
2276 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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2279Version 2.28
2280
2281Major new features:
2282
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2283* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2284 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2285 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2286 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2287 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2288 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2289 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2290 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2291 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2292 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2293 archive or binary locales.
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2295* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2296 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2297 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2298 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2299 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2300 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2301 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2302 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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2303 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2304 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2305 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2306 validated for i686.
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2308* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2309 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2310 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2311 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2312 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2313 field) to indicate such support is required.
2314
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2315* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2316 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2317 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2318
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2319* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2320 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2321
2322 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2323 fMxaddfNx functions.
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2325 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2326 fMxsubfNx functions.
2327
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2328 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2329 fMxmulfNx functions.
2330
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2331 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2332 fMxdivfNx functions.
2333
e607a352 2334* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 2335 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 2336 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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2337 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2338 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 2340* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 2341 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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2343* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2344 patches.
2345
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2346* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2347 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2348 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2349 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2350 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2351 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2352 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2353 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2354
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2355* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2356 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2357 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2358 the fstatat64 function.
2359
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2360* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2361 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2362 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2363 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2364 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2365 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2366 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2367 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2368 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2369
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2370* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2371 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2372 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2373 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2374 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2375 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2376 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2377 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2378 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2379 results in a load failure now.
2380
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2381* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2382 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2383 <threads.h>:
2384
2385 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2386 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2387
2388 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2389 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2390
2391 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2392
2393 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2394 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2395
2396 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2397
2398 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2399
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2400Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2401
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2402* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2403 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2404 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2405
2406* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2407 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2408 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2409 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2410 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2411 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2412
2413* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2414 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2415 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2416 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2417 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2418 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2419 (Bug #1190.)
2420
2421* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2422 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2423 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2424 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2425 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2426 further explanation.
2427
2428 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2429 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2430 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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2432* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2433
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2434* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2435 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2436 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2437
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2438* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2439 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2440 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2441 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2442
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2443* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2444 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2445 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2446 for this function instead.
2447
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2448* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2449 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2450 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2451
2452* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2453 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2454 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2455 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2456
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2457* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2458 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2459 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2460 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2461 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2462
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2463* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2464 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2465 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2466 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2467 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2468 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2469 such as libgcrypt.
2470
2471* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2472 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2473 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2474 enabled.
2475
2476* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2477 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2478 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2479
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2480* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2481 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2482 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2483 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2484 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2485 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2486
2487 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2488 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2489 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2490 behavior in a future release.
2491
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2493
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2496Security related changes:
2497
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2498 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2499 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2500 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2501 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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2503 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2504 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2505
2506 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2507 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2508 Izbyshev.
2509
2510 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2511 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2512 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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2516 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2517 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2518 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2519 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2520 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2521 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2522 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2523 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2524 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2525 14651
2526 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2527 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2528 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2529 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2530 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2531 conversion is given
2532 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2533 date
2534 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2535 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2536 scope with -O1 and higher
2537 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2538 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2539 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2540 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2541 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2542 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2543 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2544 horrible machine code)
2545 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2546 last constant.
2547 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2548 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2549 symbols
2550 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2551 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2552 defined
2553 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2554 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2555 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2556 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2557 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2558 fpscr.c'
2559 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2560 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2561 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2562 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2563 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2564 the base address
2565 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2566 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2567 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2568 open_verify
2569 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2570 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2571 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2572 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2573 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2574 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2575 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2576 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2577 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2578 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2579 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2580 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2581 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2582 dlopen
2583 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2584 AT_SECURE=1
2585 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2586 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2587 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2588 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2589 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2590 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2591 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2592 for Spanish with CLDR
2593 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2594 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2595 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2596 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2597 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2598 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2599 es_BO
2600 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2601 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
2602 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2603 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2604 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2605 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2606 dlopen failures
2607 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2608 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2609 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2610 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2611 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2612 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2613 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2614 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2615 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2616 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2617 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2618 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2619 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2620 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2621 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2622 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2623 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2624 makecontext
2625 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2626 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2627 required
2628 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2629 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2630 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2631 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2632 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2633 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2634 disabled
2635 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2636 failure
2637 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2638 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2639 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2640 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2641 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2642 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2643 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2644 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2645 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2646 and libc build with -Os)
2647 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2648 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2649 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2650 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2651 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2652 that changes /etc/passwd
2653 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2654 (CVE-2018-11237)
2655 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2656 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2657 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2658 posix/regcomp.c
2659 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2660 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2661 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2662 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2663 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2664 AT_SECURE
2665 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2666 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2667 parser.c
2668 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2669 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2670 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2671 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2672 directed rounding
2673 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2674 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2675 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2676 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2677 lookup
2678 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2679 interposition
2680 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2681 DSO boundaries.
2682 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2683 <linux/time.h>
2684 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2685 checking
2686 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2687 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2688 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2689 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2690 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2691 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2692 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2693 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2694 processors
2695 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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2698Version 2.27
2699
2700Major new features:
2701
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2703 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
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2705 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2706 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2707 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2708 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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2709 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2710 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 2711
ac817e08 2712* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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2713 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2714 H.J. Lu from Intel.
20c7b195 2715
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2716* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2717
4cf82d23 2718* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
72aa6233 2719
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2720* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2721 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2722 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2723 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2724 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2725 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2726 from a security and performance perspective.
2727
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2728* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2729 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2730 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2731 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2732
81325b12 2733* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
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2734 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2735 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2736 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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2737 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2738
a23aa5b7 2739* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 2740 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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2741 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2742 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2743 _Float128.
2744
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2745* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2746 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2747 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 2748
4bab0224 2749* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
59d2cbb1 2750
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2751* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2752 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2753 pkey_get.
2754
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FW
2755* The copy_file_range function was added.
2756
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PM
2757* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2758
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AJ
2759* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2760 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2761 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2762
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2763* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2764 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2765 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2766 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2767 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2768 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2769 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2770
2771 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2772 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2773 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2774 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2775 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2776 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2777 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2778
2779 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2780 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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2781 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2782 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2783 respectively.
2784
2785 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2786 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2787 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2788 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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2789
2790 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2791 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2792 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2793
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2794 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2795 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 2796 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
4378b735 2797
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2798* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2799 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2800 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2801
2802 - rv64imac lp64
2803 - rv64imafdc lp64
2804 - rv64imafdc lp64d
2805
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2806Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2807
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2808* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2809 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 2810 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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2811 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2812 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2813 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2814 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2815 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2816 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2817 fix this.
2818
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FW
2819* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2820 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2821 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2822
2fc21aaa
FW
2823* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2824 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2825 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2826 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2827 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2828 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2829 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2830 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2831 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2832 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2833 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2834 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2835 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2836 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2837 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2838 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2839 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2840 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2841 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2842 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2843 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2844 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2845 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2846 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2847 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2848 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2849
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2850* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2851 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
00cdcf5a 2852
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2853* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2854 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2855 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2856 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2857 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2858 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2859 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2860
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2861* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2862 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2863 exp10l for these functions instead.
2864
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2865* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2866 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2867 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2868
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JM
2869* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2870 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2871 ignored.
2872
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2873* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2874 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2875 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2876 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2877
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2878* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2879 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2880
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2881* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2882 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2883
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2884* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2885 programs.
2886
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2887* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2888
48a8f832
ZW
2889* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2890 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2891 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2892 instead.
2893
2894 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2895 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2896 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2897 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2898 use, but predates the bits convention.
2899
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2900Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2901
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2902* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2903 subdirectory.
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2904
2905Security related changes:
2906
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2907 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2908 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2909 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2910 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2911 script.)
00cdcf5a 2912
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2913 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2914 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2915 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2916 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 2917
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FW
2918 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2919 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2920 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2921 of service.
2922
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2923 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2924 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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2925 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2926
37ac8e63
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2927 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2928 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2929 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2930 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2931
8a0b17e4
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2932 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2933 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2934 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2935 Qualys.
2936
3ff3dfa5
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2937 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2938 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2939 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2940 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2941 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2942
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2943 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2944 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2945 current directory.
2946
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2947 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2948 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2949 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2950
4590634f
FW
2951 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2952 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2953 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2954
71aa429b
FW
2955 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2956 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2957 small, instead of NULL.
2958
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2959The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2960
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2961 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2962 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2963 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2964 locale
2965 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2966 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2967 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2968 cases
2969 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2970 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2971 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2972 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2973 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2974 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2975 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2976 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2977 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2978 "Bangla"
2979 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2980 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2981 width Latin characters
2982 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2983 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2984 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2985 letters
2986 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2987 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2988 (CVE-2009-5064)
2989 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2990 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2991 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2992 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2993 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2994 if malloc succeeded
2995 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2996 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2997 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2998 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2999 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
3000 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
3001 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
3002 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
3003 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
3004 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
3005 U+309A
3006 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
3007 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
3008 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
3009 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
3010 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
3011 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
3012 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
3013 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
3014 for Nicaragua
3015 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3016 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3017 are not found.
3018 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3019 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3020 access
3021 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3022 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3023 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3024 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3025 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3026 __regcall calling convention
3027 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3028 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3029 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3030 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3031 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3032 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3033 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3034 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3035 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3036 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3037 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3038 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3039 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3040 locale
3041 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3042 protector=all
3043 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3044 wcwidth
3045 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3046 consistency check failures
3047 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3048 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3049 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3050 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3051 PIE
3052 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3053 locales
3054 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3055 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3056 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3057 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3058 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3059 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3060 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3061 on memory allocation failure
3062 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3063 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3064 the suspect)
3065 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3066 default (i386)
3067 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3068 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3069 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3070 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3071 instead of EAI_NODATA
3072 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3073 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3074 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3075 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3076 implementation
3077 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3078 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3079 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3080 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3081 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3082 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3083 allocation in syscall loops)
3084 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3085 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3086 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3087 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3088 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3089 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3090 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3091 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3092 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3093 occur with -O3
3094 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3095 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3096 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3097 amounts)
3098 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3099 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3100 niu_NZ
3101 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3102 checks
3103 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3104 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3105 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3106 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3107 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3108 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3109 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3110 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3111 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3112 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3113 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3114 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3115 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3116 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3117 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3118 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3119 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3120 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3121 parsing after OOM
3122 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3123 object
3124 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3125 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3126 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
3127 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3128 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3129 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 3130 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
3131 ppc64le
3132 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3133 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3134 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3135 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3136 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3137 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3138 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3139 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3140 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3141 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3142 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3143 math_force_eval
3144 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3145 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3146 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3147 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3148 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3149 the svid compat wrapper
3150 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3151 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3152 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3153 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3154 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3155 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3156 --verbose.
3157 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3158 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3159 to 2.26
3160 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3161 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3162 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3163 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3164 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3165 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3166 (CVE-2017-15804)
3167 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3168 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3169 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3170 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3171 failure."
3172 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3173 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3174 -m32
3175 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3176 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3177 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3178 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3179 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3180 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3181 inside the ASCII printable range
3182 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3183 -mlong-double-64
3184 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3185 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3186 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3187 Internet
3188 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3189 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3190 backslash
3191 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3192 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3193 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3194 heaps in an arena
3195 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3196 networking interface
3197 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3198 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3199 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3200 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3201 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3202 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3203 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3204 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3205 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3206 order
3207 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3208 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3209 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3210 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3211 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3212 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3213 same as for Croatian
3214 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3215 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3216 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3217 for initial thread"
3218 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3219 SC_SSIZE_MAX
3220 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3221 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3222 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3223 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3224 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3225 (CVE-2017-1000408)
3226 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3227 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3228 modified in case of success
3229 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3230 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3231 success
3232 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3233 stack-protector=all
3234 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3235 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3236 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3237 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3238 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3239 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3240 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3241 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3242 adding it on top
3243 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3244 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3245 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3246 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3247 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3248 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3249 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3250 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3251 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3252 (CVE-2018-1000001)
3253 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3254 elision and tunables
3255 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3256 "invalid" exception
3257 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3258 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3259 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3260 exception
3261 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3262 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3263 power4
3264 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3265 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3266 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3267 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3268 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3269 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3270 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3271 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3272 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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3275Version 2.26
3276
2b2ccd0c
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3277Major new features:
3278
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3279* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3280 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3281 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3282 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3283 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3284 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3285 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3286
925fac77
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3287* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3288 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 3289 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
a0e52598
MF
3290 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3291 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3292 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3293 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
58557c22 3294
2b2ccd0c
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3295* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3296 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3297 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 3298
2b2ccd0c 3299* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 3300
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3301 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3302 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3303 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 3304
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3305 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3306 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3307 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3308 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3309 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 3310
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3311 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3312 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3313 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 3314
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3315* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3316 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 3317
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3318* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3319 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3320 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3321 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 3322
2b2ccd0c
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3323* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3324 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3325 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3326 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 3327
2b2ccd0c
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3328* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3329 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3330 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3331 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 3332
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3333* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3334 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3335 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 3336
2b2ccd0c 3337* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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3338 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3339 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3340 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 3341
2b2ccd0c 3342 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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3343 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3344 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3345 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3346 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3347
3348 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3349 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3350 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3351 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3352 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3353 interfaces should be used instead.
f819dbea 3354
2b2ccd0c
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3355Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3356
3357* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3358 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3359 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3360 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3361 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3362 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3363 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3364 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3365
3366* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3367 removed.
3368
3369* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 3370 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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3371 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3372 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3373
3374* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3375 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3376 default.
3377
3378 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3379 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3380 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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3381 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3382 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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3383
3384 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3385 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3386 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3387 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3388
3389* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3390 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3391 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3392 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3393
3394* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3395 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 3396
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3397* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3398 exported by accident.
3399
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3400* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3401 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3402 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3403
3404* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3405 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3406 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3407 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3408
3409* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3410
3411* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3412
3413* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3414 free instead.
3415
3416* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3417 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3418
3419* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3420 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3421
3422* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3423 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3424 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3425 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3426 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3427 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3428 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3429 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3430
3431* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3432 synced with the kernel:
3433
3434 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3435 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3436
3437 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3438 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3439 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3440
3441 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3442 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3443
3444Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3445
3446* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3447 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3448 x86-32 and x86-64.)
3449
7e368000 3450* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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3452* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3453 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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3454
3455 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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3456 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3457 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3458 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 3459 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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3461Security related changes:
3462
e14a2772 3463* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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3464 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3465
3466* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3467 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3468
3469* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3470 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3471 (CVE-2010-3192).
3472
3473* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3474 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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3476The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3477
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3478 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3479 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3480 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3481 fields
3482 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3483 (CVE-2010-3192)
3484 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3485 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3486 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3487 ld.bfd is available
3488 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3489 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3490 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3491 x86 and other generic code
3492 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3493 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3494 incorrect
3495 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3496 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3497 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3498 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3499 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3500 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3501 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3502 resolver
3503 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3504 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3505 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3506 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3507 chillu characters
3508 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3509 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3510 receiving data
3511 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3512 whitespace
3513 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3514 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3515 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3516 for Peru
3517 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3518 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3519 failures consistently
3520 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3521 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3522 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3523 frame-pointer on i386
3524 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3525 register
7f0d9e61 3526 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
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3527 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3528 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3529 generic c code is used
3530 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3531 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3532 around 4000
3533 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3534 (CVE-2017-12133)
3535 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3536 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3537 with -lieee
3538 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3539 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3540 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3541 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3542 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3543 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3544 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3545 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3546 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3547 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3548 remove()
3549 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3550 checked for errors.
3551 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3552 new posix_spawn implementation
3553 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3554 leads to lower CPU frequency
3555 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3556 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3557 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3558 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3559 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3560 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3561 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3562 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3563 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3564 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3565 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3566 not support gethostbyname4_r
3567 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3568 switching
3569 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3570 arenas
3571 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3572 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3573 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3574 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3575 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3576 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3577 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3578 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3579 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3580 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3581 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3582 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3583 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3584 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3585 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3586 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3587 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3588 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3589 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3590 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3591 retry value
3592 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3593 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3594 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3595 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3596 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3597 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3598 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3599 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3600 [21537] libc:
3601 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3602 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3603 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3604 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3605 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3606 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3607 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3608 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3609 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3610 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3611 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3612 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3613 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3614 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3615 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3616 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3617 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3618 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3619 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3620 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3621 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3622 issue on x86-64
3623 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3624 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3625 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3626 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3627 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3628 construction
3629 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3630 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3631 between_2_3
3632 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3633 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3634 conditions
3635 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3636 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3637 Hindi Locale
3638 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3639 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3640 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3641 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3642 locale
3643 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3644 leading to relocation crash
3645 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3646 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3647 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3648 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3649 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3650 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3651 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3652 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3653 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3654 locale
3655 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3656 locale
3657 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3658 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3659 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3660 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3661 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3662 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3663 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3664 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3665 strings
3666 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3667 protector=all
3668 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3669 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
3670 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3671 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3672 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3673 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3674 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3675 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3676 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3677 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3678 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3679 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3680 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3681 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3682 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3683 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3684 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3685 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3686 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3687 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3688 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3689 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3690 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3691 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3692 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3693 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3694 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3695 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3696 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3697 with unicode 9.0
3698 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3699 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3700 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3701 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3702 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 3703
d5b396c1 3704\f
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3705Version 2.25
3706
48789000
JM
3707* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3708 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3709 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3710 Library.
e720d3d9 3711
bf91be88
JM
3712* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3713 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 3714 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
bf91be88
JM
3715 the GNU C Library.
3716
412cb261
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3717* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3718 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3719 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3720 the GNU C Library.
3721
c0307377
ZW
3722* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3723 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3724 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3725 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3726 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3727 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3728 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3729 will not.
3730
3731 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3732 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3733 many years.
3734
dbab6577
ZW
3735* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3736 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3737 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3738
3739 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3740 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3741 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3742 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3743 problem.
3744
ec94343f 3745* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
c0b43536
JM
3746 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3747 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 3748
a292f45a
JM
3749* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3750 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
5b17fd0d
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3751 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3752 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3753 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3754 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3755 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3756 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3757 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3758 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3759 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3760 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 3761
d942e95c
JM
3762* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3763
f82a4bdb
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3764 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3765
423c2b9d
JM
3766 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3767 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3768 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 3769
55a38f82
JM
3770 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3771 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3772
525f8039
JM
3773 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3774 fminmagf, fminmagl.
3775
1e7c8fcc
JM
3776 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3777
29cb9293 3778 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 3779
cc6a8d74
JM
3780 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3781 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 3782
eaf5ad0b
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3783 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3784
eb3c12c7 3785 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 3786 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 3787
f3b904d9
JM
3788* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3789 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3790
cecbc796
NA
3791* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3792 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3793 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3794
ea1bd74d
ZW
3795* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3796 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3797 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3798 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3799 effects of the memory clear).
3800
b0216d3e
JM
3801* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3802 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3803 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3804 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3805
f3b904d9
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3806* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3807 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3808 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3809 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3810 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3811 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 3812
92dcaa3e
FW
3813* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3814 have been added.
3815
705a79f8
FW
3816* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3817 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3818 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3819 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3820 as large as several megabytes.
3821
4d728087
FW
3822* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3823 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3824 been removed.
3825
e863cce5
FW
3826* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3827 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3828 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3829 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3830 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3831 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3832 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3833
7ec47a85
FW
3834* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3835 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3836 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3837 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3838
099191b1 3839* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
FW
3840 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3841 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3842 Internet.
3843
bbe989ee
FW
3844* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3845 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3846 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 3847
b76e0659
FW
3848* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3849 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3850 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3851 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3852
3a2a1d2c
FW
3853* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3854 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3855 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3856 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3857 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3858
be728303
FW
3859* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3860 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3861 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3862 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3863 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3864
6815a33d
FW
3865* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3866 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3867 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3868 did not reflect that.
3869
022dfdce
SL
3870* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3871 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3872 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3873 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3874 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3875 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3876 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3877 'gcc/config.gcc'.
3878
23b5cae1
MG
3879* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3880 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3881 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3882 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3883
7715d3ab
SP
3884* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3885 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3886 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3887 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3888
0cea3587
SP
3889* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3890 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3891 guarantees.
3892
3893* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3894 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3895 make state changes.
3896
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3897Security related changes:
3898
fc82b0a2 3899* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4d047efd
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3900 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3901 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3902 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 3903 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 3904
fc82b0a2
FW
3905* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3906 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3907 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3908 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3909 (CVE-2015-5180)
3910
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3911The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3912
fdb724f9 3913 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
3914 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3915 protector-all
3916 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3917 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3918 before it started waiting
3919 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3920 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3921 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3922 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3923 wrong type
3924 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3925 library linked with pthread
3926 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3927 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3928 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3929 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3930 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3931 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3932 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
7f0d9e61 3933 when it shouldn't
4e054e6b
SP
3934 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3935 not
3936 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3937 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3938 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3939 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3940 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3941 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3942 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3943 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3944 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3945 termination
3946 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3947 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3948 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3949 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3950 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3951 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3952 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3953 causes a segmentation fault
3954 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3955 linking
3956 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3957 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3958 uninitialized GOT
3959 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3960 versions
3961 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3962 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3963 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3964 is always true.
3965 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3966 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3967 modes
3968 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3969 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3970 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3971 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3972 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3973 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3974 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3975 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3976 libpthread.a
3977 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3978 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3979 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3980 _res_hconf
3981 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3982 information.
3983 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3984 penalty
3985 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3986 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3987 cause transition penalty
3988 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3989 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3990 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3991 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3992 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3993 mcount.oS)
3994 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3995 Checking
3996 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3997 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3998 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3999 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
4000 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
4001 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
4002 multi-arch
4003 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
4004 (RES_USEBSTRING)
4005 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
4006 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
4007 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
4008 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
4009 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
4010 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
4011 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
4012 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
4013 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
4014 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
4015 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4016 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4017 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4018 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4019 glibc
4020 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4021 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4022 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4023 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4024 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4025 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4026 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4027 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4028 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4029 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4030 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4031 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4032 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4033 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4034 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4035 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4036 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4037 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4038 RES_USE_INET6
4039 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4040 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4041 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4042 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4043 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4044 wrong condition
4045 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4046 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4047 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4048 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4049 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4050 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4051 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4052 clang
4053 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4054 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4055 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4056 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4057 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 4058\f
11fca961
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4059Version 2.24
4060
5b4ecd3f
JM
4061* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4062 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4063 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4064 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4065 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4066 architectures.
4067
b6ebba70
MF
4068* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4069 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4070 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 4071
7584a3f9
FW
4072* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4073 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4074
b49ab5f4
FW
4075* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4076 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4077 instead of “union wait”.
4078
ced8f893
SG
4079* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4080 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4081 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4082 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4083 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4084 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4085 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4086
2ba3cfa1
FW
4087* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4088 API.
4089
b7a9b7b0
MF
4090* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4091 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4092 drop it.
6a54bcda 4093
41a359e2
RS
4094* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4095 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4096 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4097 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4098 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4099 extensions.
4100
11fca961
AZ
4101Security related changes:
4102
f5b3338d
FW
4103* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4104 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4105 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4106
4ab2ab03
FW
4107* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4108 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4109 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4110 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 4111
5171f307
FW
4112* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4113 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4114 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4115
bc779a1a
FW
4116* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4117 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4118 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4119
fab38231
FW
4120* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4121 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4122 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4123 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4124
11fca961
AZ
4125The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4126
3c4f81ec
CD
4127 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4128 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4129 of MS-DOS.
4130 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4131 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4132 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4133 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4134 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4135 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4136 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4137 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4138 CLDR data
4139 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4140 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4141 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4142 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4143 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4144 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4145 romanisation
4146 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4147 and +/-
4148 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4149 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4150 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4151 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4152 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4153 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4154 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4155 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4156 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4157 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4158 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4159 all locales
4160 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4161 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4162 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4163 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4164 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4165 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4166 execute
4167 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4168 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4169 -Wsystem-headers
4170 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4171 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4172 Romanian locale data
4173 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4174 symbol
4175 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4176 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4177 language
4178 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4179 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4180 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4181 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4182 machine
4183 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4184 description
4185 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4186 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4187 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4188 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4189 when using RTLD_NEXT
4190 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4191 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4192 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4193 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4194 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4195 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4196 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4197 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4198 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4199 Excavator core
4200 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4201 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4202 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4203 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4204 double range
4205 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4206 part zero incorrect
4207 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4208 equality tests
4209 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4210 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4211 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4212 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4213 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4214 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4215 glibc-2.22
4216 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4217 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4218 'tst-numeric.c'
4219 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4220 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4221 low part
4222 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4223 result
4224 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4225 unaligned stack
4226 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4227 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4228 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4229 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4230 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4231 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4232 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4233 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4234 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4235 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4236 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4237 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4238 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4239 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4240 modes
4241 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4242 server addresses
4243 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4244 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4245 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4246 response to getaddrinfo
4247 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4248 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4249 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4250 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4251 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4252 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4253 sometimes incorrect
4254 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4255 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4256 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4257 record types
4258 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4259 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4260 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4261 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4262 (CVE-2016-3075)
4263 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4264 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4265 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4266 resolving symbols
4267 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4268 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4269 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4270 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4271 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4272 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4273 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4274 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4275 gethosts
4276 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4277 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4278 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4279 (CVE-2016-3706)
4280 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4281 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4282 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4283 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4284 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4285 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4286 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4287 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4288 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4289 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4290 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4291 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4292 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4293 executable
4294 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4295 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4296 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4297 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4298 XPG3
4299 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4300 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4301 (CVE-2016-4429)
4302 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4303 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4304 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4305 AS not supporting AVX512
4306 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4307 sNaN argument
4308 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4309 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4310 argument
4311 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4312 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4313 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4314 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4315 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4316 eax=0x80000001
4317 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4318 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4319 subnormals
4320 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4321 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4322 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4323 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4324 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4325 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4326 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4327 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4328 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4329 input
4330 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4331 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4332 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4333 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4334 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4335 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4336 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4337 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4338 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4339 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4340 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4341 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4342 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4343 double rounding
4344 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4345 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4346 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4347 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4348 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4349 (Only arm/linux)
4350 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4351 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4352 fallbacks
4353 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4354 "invalid" exceptions
4355 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4356 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4357 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4358 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4359 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4360 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4361 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4362 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4363 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 4364\f
aeb47bbc
DM
4365Version 2.23
4366
23256f5e
MF
4367* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4368 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4369 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4370 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4371 89, 16061, and 18568.
4372
2359035a
FW
4373* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4374 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4375 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4376 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4377 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4378 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4379 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4380
8b7b7f75
MW
4381* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4382 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4383 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4384
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4385* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4386 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4387 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4388 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4389 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4390 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4391 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4392
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4393* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4394 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4395 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4396 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
7f0d9e61 4397 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 4398 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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4399 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4400 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 4401
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4402* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4403 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4404 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4405 independent of the GNU C Library.
4406
1c70b6f1
ZW
4407* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4408 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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4410* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4411 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4412 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4413 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4414 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4415 Linux kernel.
4416
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4417* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4418 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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4420* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4421 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4422 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4423 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4424 defining their own copy.
4425
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4426* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4427 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4428 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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4430Security related changes:
4431
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4432* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4433 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4434
4435* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4436 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4437 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4438 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4439 (CVE-2015-8777)
4440
4441* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4442 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4443
4444* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4445 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4446
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4447* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4448 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 4449 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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4451* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4452 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4453 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4454 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4455 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4456 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4457 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4458 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4459 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4460 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4461 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4462 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4463 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4464
ad372e29 4465The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 4466
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AZ
4467 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4468 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4469 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4470 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4471 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4472 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4473 use `mkstemp'
4474 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
7f0d9e61 4475 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
ad372e29
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4476 overflow/underflow errors
4477 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4478 overflow/underflow
4479 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4480 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4481 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4482 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4483 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4484 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4485 are not contiguous
4486 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4487 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4488 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4489 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4490 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4491 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4492 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4493 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4494 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4495 all exceptions
4496 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4497 arguments
4498 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4499 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4500 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4501 should include
4502 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4503 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4504 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4505 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4506 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4507 GNU/Linux
4508 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4509 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4510 arguments
4511 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4512 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4513 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4514 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4515 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4516 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4517 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4518 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4519 rounding results
4520 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4521 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4522 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4523 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4524 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4525 fails
4526 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4527 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4528 block boundary
4529 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4530 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4531 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4532 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4533 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4534 4.7?
4535 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4536 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4537 (related to lock elision)
4538 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4539 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4540 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4541 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4542 (CVE-2015-8779)
4543 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4544 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4545 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4546 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4547 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4548 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4549 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4550 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4551 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4552 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4553 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4554 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4555 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4556 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4557 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4558 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4559 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4560 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4561 contains a vector instruction exception.
4562 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4563 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4564 locales
4565 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4566 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4567 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4568 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4569 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4570 missing break ?
4571 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4572 32bit processes
4573 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4574 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4575 infinity
4576 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4577 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4578 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4579 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4580 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4581 be forced unloaded
4582 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4583 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4584 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4585 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4586 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4587 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4588 statically too large
4589 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4590 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4591 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4592 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4593 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4594 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4595 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4596 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4597 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4598 FUTEX_SHARED
4599 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4600 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4601 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4602 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4603 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4604 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4605 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4606 opendir()
4607 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4608 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4609 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4610 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4611 signgam
4612 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4613 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4614 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4615 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4616 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4617 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4618 dependencies
4619 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4620 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4621 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4622 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4623 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4624 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4625 (CVE-2015-8776)
4626 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4627 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4628 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4629 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4630 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4631 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4632 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4633 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4634 contention
4635 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4636 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4637 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4638 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4639 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4640 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4641 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4642 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4643 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4644 rounding modes
4645 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4646 ILP32
4647 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4648 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4649 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4650 threshold
4651 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4652 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4653 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
7f0d9e61 4654 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
ad372e29
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4655 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4656 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4657 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4658 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4659 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4660 pthread_setaffinity_np
4661 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4662 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4663 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4664 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4665 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4666 prelink
4667 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4668 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4669 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4670 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4671 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4672 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4673 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4674 bits/mathcalls.h
4675 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4676 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4677 for C99-based standards
4678 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4679 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4680 math-only
4681 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4682 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4683 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4684 disabled
4685 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4686 "inexact" exceptions
4687 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4688 arguments
4689 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4690 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4691 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4692 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4693 rules
4694 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4695 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4696 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4697 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4698 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4699 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4700 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4701 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4702 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4703 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4704 from 32bit
4705 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4706 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4707 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4708 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4709 subnormals
4710 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4711 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4712 error on 32-bit architectures
4713 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4714 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4715 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4716 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4717 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4718 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4719 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4720 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4721 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4722 -Os
4723 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4724 CPU's.
4725 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4726 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4727 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4728 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4729 architectures
4730 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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4732Version 2.22
4733
4734* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4735
3df5cd98 4736 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
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4737 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4738 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4739 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4740 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4741 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4742 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4743 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4744 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4745 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4746 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4747 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4748 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4749 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4750 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4751 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4752 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4753 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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4754 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4755 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 4756
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4757* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4758 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4759
2959eda9
AS
4760* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4761 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4762 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4763 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4764 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4765 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 4766
42261ad7
FW
4767* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4768 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4769 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4770 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4771 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4772
afcd9480
AM
4773* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4774 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4775 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4776
4a4839c9
AO
4777* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4778 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4779 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4780 17998.
4781
b13b96ca
AS
4782* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4783 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4784 condition in some applications.
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AS
4785
4786* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
4787 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4788 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
4789 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4790 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
4791 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4792 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 4793 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
4794
4795* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4796 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4797 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4798 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
4799
4800* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4801 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4802 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
4803
4804* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4805 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
4806
4807* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4808 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4809 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4810
a03ba363 4811 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
4812 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4813 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 4814\f
58b930ae
SP
4815Version 2.21
4816
4817* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4818
042e1521 4819 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
4820 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4821 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4822 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4823 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4824 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4825 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4826 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4827 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4828 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4829 17892.
4830
46d54873
FW
4831* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4832 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4833 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4834 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4835 intended.
042e1521
CD
4836
4837* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4838 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4839 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4840 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4841 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4842 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 4843
522e6ee3
CLT
4844* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4845
d3b00f46
AZ
4846* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4847 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 4848 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 4849
8d2c0a59
AZ
4850* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4851 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4852 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4853 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4854 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4855 effects being visible outside transactions.
4856
dc400d7b
RE
4857* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4858 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 4859
0f9dfe04
L
4860* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4861
a39208bd
CD
4862* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4863 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 4864 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
4865 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4866 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 4867
a5357b7c
JL
4868* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4869 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4870
e54db0ea
AM
4871* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4872 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4873 format.
11e3417a 4874
4863355a
JM
4875* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4876 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4877 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4878
a4ecc9eb
JM
4879* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4880 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4881
0d560bbf 4882* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
4883
4884* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4885 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4886 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4887 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
4888
4889* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4890 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
4891
4892* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4893 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4894 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4895 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4896 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4897 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4898 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4899 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4900 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4901 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4902 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4903 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4904 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4905
4906 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4907 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4908 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4909 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4910 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 4911\f
d5b396c1
AM
4912Version 2.20
4913
4914* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4915
6a9350c8
JM
4916 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4917 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4918 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4919 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4920 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4921 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4922 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4923 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4924 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4925 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4926 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4927 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4928 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4929 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4930 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 4931
95ee7fb1
SL
4932* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4933 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4934 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4935 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4936 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 4937 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
4938 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4939 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4940 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4941 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4942
0961f7e1
JL
4943* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4944 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4945 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4946 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4947 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 4948
f940b965
RE
4949* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4950
d0f5b3f8
JM
4951* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4952 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4953
d6fe5e58
JM
4954* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4955 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4956 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4957 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4958 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4959 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4960
464263cc
JM
4961* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4962 from ports.
c941736c
JM
4963
4964* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4965 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4966 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4967 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4968 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4969 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4970 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
4971
4972* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
4973
4974* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4975 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4976 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4977 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4978 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4979 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4980 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
4981
4982* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4983 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4984 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4985 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4986 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
4987
4988* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4989 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4990 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
4991
4992* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4993 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4994 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4995 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
4996
4997* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4998 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4999 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
5000 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
5001 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
5002 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
5003 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
5004 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
5005
5006* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
5007 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
5008 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
5009 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
5010 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
5011 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
5012 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
5013 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
5014 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
5015
5016* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5017 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5018 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5019 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5020 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 5021 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
5022
5023* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5024 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5025 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5026 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
5027\f
5028Version 2.19
5029
5030* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5031
fd2f9486
JM
5032 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5033 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5034 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5035 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5036 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5037 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5038 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5039 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5040 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5041 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
5042 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5043 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5044 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5045 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5046 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
5047 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5048 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5049 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 5050
11520a57
CD
5051* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5052 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5053
2fe16229
CD
5054* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5055 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5056 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
5057 extension which uses __block.
5058
303e567a
SP
5059* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5060 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5061 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5062 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5063 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5064
141f3a77
SP
5065* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5066 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5067 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5068 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5069 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
5070
5071* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5072 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5073 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5074 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5075 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
5076
5077* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5078 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5079 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5080
ba0d798c
WN
5081* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5082 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5083 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5084 #15856, #15857).
5085
7cbcdb36
SP
5086* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5087 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5088
82bab04b 5089* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 5090 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 5091
c5f840fd
MB
5092* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5093
3e181dda
CD
5094* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5095 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 5096
3e181dda 5097* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 5098
8a05c252
CL
5099* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5100
6055173a
JM
5101* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5102 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5103 for which the C library was built.
5104
b125d3e5
JM
5105* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5106 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5107 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5108 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5109 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5110 in the following circumstances:
5111
5112 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5113
5114 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5115 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5116
d4f66d37
JM
5117* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5118 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5119
3e181dda
CD
5120* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5121 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 5122
ffb89e53
AO
5123* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5124
5d29ccce
SP
5125* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5126 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5127
8b7d57cd 5128* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
5129
5130* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 5131
fd712ef3 5132* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 5133
c688b419
JM
5134* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5135 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5136 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5137 disable some of those declarations.
5138
7011c262 5139* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
5140 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5141 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
5142
5143* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5144 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
5145
5146* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5147 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5148 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5149 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5150 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5151 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5152 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5153 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5154 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5155 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5156 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5157 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5158 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
5159\f
5160Version 2.18
5161
5162* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5163
17db6e8d 5164 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
5165 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5166 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
5167 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5168 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5169 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5170 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5171 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5172 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5173 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5174 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5175 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5176 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5177 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
5178
5179* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5180 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5181 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5182 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5183 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5184 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 5185
5b535ac4
AS
5186* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5187 #15078).
5188
1cef1b19
AS
5189* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5190 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 5191
55e4107b
SP
5192* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5193 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5194 destructor calls to glibc.
5195
e5c74c63
SP
5196* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5197 output.
5198
5199* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5200 non-x86 architectures.
5201
e7521973
JM
5202* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5203
5204* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5205
5206* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5207 Richard Henderson.
5208
5209* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5210
5211* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5212 Richard Henderson.
5213
5214* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5215 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5216
8cfdb7e0
SP
5217* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5218
57267616
TS
5219* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5220 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 5221
c204ab28
SP
5222* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5223 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 5224
0748546f
PE
5225* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5226 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5227 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5228
61dd6208
SP
5229* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5230 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5231 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
5232
5233* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5234 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5235 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5236 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5237 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
5238
5239* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5240 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5241
5242* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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5243\f
5244Version 2.17
5245
5246* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5247
80ceeaee 5248 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
5249 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5250 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5251 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5252 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5253 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5254 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5255 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5256 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5257 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5258 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5259 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5260 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5261 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5262 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 5263
95b4f1b6
SE
5264* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5265
14bc93a9
JL
5266* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5267 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 5268
b54eb3cb
JM
5269* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5270 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5271
7e2bd01f
MS
5272* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5273
08f43f9b
AK
5274* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5275 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5276 zEnterprise z196.
5277 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5278
84b3fd84
FW
5279* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5280 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5281 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5282
815e6fa3
GB
5283* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5284 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5285
400726de
MK
5286* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5287 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5288
7aab07e4 5289* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 5290 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 5291
15d0da8c
WS
5292* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5293 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5294
3cc3ef96
RM
5295* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5296 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
5297 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5298 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 5299
b54eb3cb
JM
5300* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5301 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5302
85429b1a 5303* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 5304 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
5305 default.
5306
b54eb3cb
JM
5307* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5308 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5309 information in --help and --version output.
5310
050af9c4
SP
5311* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5312 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5313 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5314
89a3ad0b
AO
5315* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5316 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5317 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5318 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5319 when the mode is enabled.
5320
6e6249d0
RM
5321* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5322 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5323 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5324 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5325 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5326 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5327 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 5328
d9286582
NK
5329* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5330 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
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5331\f
5332Version 2.16
5333
5334* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5335
a8133e19
JM
5336 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5337 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5338 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5339 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5340 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5341 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5342 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5343 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5344 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5345 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5346 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5347 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5348 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5349 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5350 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5351 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5352 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5353 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5354 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5355 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5356 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5357 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5358 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 5359
a086b4d6
L
5360* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5361 configuring glibc with:
5362 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 5363 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
5364 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5365
380d7e87
UD
5366* ISO C11 support:
5367
5368 + define static_assert
5369
5370 + do not declare gets
5371
5372 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5373
5374 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5375 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5376 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5377 implementation.
8d44e150 5378
74033a25 5379 + timespec_get added
544563c9
UD
5380
5381 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 5382
ac097f5c
UD
5383 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5384
16dd419d
UD
5385 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5386
9dc4e1fb 5387* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
UD
5388
5389* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
5390
5391* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5392 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
5393
5394* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5395 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
5396
5397* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5398 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5399 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5400 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5401 existing applications.
ffb7875d 5402
21708942 5403* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
5404 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5405 before 2.6.
83678f76 5406
edb00e4d
RH
5407* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5408 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5409 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5410
83678f76 5411* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
5412
5413* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5414 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5415 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5416 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5417 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
5418
5419* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5420
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
5421* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5422 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
5423
5424* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5425
5426* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5427 without a previously built glibc.
5428
5429* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5430 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5431
5432* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5433 now supported for ARM processors.
5434
5435* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5436 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5437 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5438
5439* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
5440
5441* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5442 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5443 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5444 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
5445
5446* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5447 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5448 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5449 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
5450
5451* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5452 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5453 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5454 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5455 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5456
5457* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5458 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5459 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5460 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 5461\f
e80fab37 5462Version 2.15
11988f8f 5463
c0244a9d
UD
5464* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5465
aebae053
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5466 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5467 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5468 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5469 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5470 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5471 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5472 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 5473
11988f8f
UD
5474* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5475 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
5476
5477* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5478 and support for initgroups lookups.
5479 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
5480
5481* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5482 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
5483
5484* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5485 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 5486
fc2ee42a
LD
5487* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5488 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 5489 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 5490
d42964a0 5491* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
5492 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5493
1d3e4b61
UD
5494* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5495 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
5496 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5497
c55fbd1e
UD
5498* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5499 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
UD
5500
5501* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5502 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
UD
5503
5504* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5505 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
UD
5506
5507* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5508 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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5509
5510* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5511 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5512
5513* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5514 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5515
5516* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
UD
5517
5518* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5519 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 5520
f0b264f1
AZ
5521* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5522 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 5523
6b64057b 5524* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 5525\f
dded88cd 5526Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 5527
50934221
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5528* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5529
553149f6 5530 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 5531 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 5532 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 5533 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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5534 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5535 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5536 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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5537 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5538 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 5539 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 5540
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5541* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5542 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5543 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 5544 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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5545
5546 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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5547 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5548 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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5549 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5550
c6489db3 5551* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 5552 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 5553
72d1dddb 5554* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 5555 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
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5556
5557* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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5558
5559* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5560 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
UD
5561
5562* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5563 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5564 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5565 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
9f94d2ea 5566\f
4828935d
LM
5567Version 2.13
5568
ac2b484c
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5569* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5570
c30b7ee2
UD
5571 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5572 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5573 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5574 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5575 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 5576
10b3bedc 5577* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 5578
ac2b484c 5579* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 5580
e9f82e0d
UD
5581* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5582 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 5583 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4828935d 5584\f
ee1a7fab
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5585Version 2.12
5586
d36b9613
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5587* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5588
2e0fb521
DL
5589 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5590 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5591 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5592 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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5593 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5594 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5595 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 5596 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
86a4c67f
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5597
5598* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 5599
ee1a7fab
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5600* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5601
5e4295fb
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5602* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5603
5604* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5605 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5606 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5607
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5608* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5609 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5610 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5611 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5612 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5613
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5617
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5619
5620 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5621 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5622 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5623 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5624 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5625 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5626
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5627* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5628 mkostemps64
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5629 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5630
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5632 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5633
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5634* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5635 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5636
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5637* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5638
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9d36a6c4 5640 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 5641 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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5643
9d36a6c4 5644 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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5645 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5646
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5647* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5648 strstr, strcasestr.
5649 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5650
5651* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5652 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5653
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5654* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5655 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5656
5657* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5658 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5659
5660* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5661 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5662 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5663 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5664 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5665 necessity is every process again.
5666 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5667
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5668* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5669 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5670
5671* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5672 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5673
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5674* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5675 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5676 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5677
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5681
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5683
5684 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5685 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5686 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5687 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5688 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5689
bb066545 5690* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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5691 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5692
425ce2ed 5693* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 5694 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 5695
1fdd89a7 5696* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 5697 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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5699* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5700 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 5702* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 5703 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5705* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5706 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5707
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5708* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5709 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5710
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5711* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5712 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5713
5714* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5715 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5716 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5717
735be400 5718* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
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84aa52d7 5720* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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5722
5723* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5724 and extend existing format specifiers.
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5725 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5726
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5727* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5728 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5729
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5730* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5731 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5732 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5733 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5734 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5735 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5737Version 2.9
5738
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5740
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5741 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5742 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5743 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5744 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5745 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
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5748 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5749
5750* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5751 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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5753* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5754 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5756* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5757 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5758 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5759
5760* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5761 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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5765* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 5766 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5768* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5769 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5770 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5771 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5772
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5773* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5774 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5776* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5777 Sinhala)
48b22986 5778 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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5779
5780* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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5782Version 2.8
5783
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5784* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5785
5786 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5787 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5788 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5789 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5790 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5791 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5792 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5793
e038616f 5794* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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77751669 5796* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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5798* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5799 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5800
5801* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5802
5803* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5804 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5805
5806* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5807 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5808
5809* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5810 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5811 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5812
5813* Faster memset for x86-64.
5814 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5815
5816* Faster memcpy on x86.
5817 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5818
5819* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5820 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3b32d8a2 5821
7f0d9e61 5822* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
d990b282 5823 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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5826
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5827* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5828
5829 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5830 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5831 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5832 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5833 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5834
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5835* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5836 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5837
5838* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5839
5840* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5841 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5842 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5843
5844* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5845 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5846
28919a77 5847* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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5848 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5849
5850* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5851
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5852* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5853 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5854
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5855* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5856 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5857
5858* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5859 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5860
5861* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5862
5863* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5864 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5866* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5867 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5868 yo_NG.
5869
5870+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5871 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5876
5877 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5878 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5879 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5880 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5881 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5882 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5883 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5884 4702, 4858
5885
bce20b9a 5886* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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5888* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5889
b21fa963 5890* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5893
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5894* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5895
5896 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5897 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5898 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5899 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5900 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5901 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5902 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5903 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5904 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5905
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5907 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5908 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5910* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5911 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5912
871b9158 5913* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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5915* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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5917* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5918 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5919 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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5921 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5922
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5924 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5925 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5926 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5927
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5928* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5929 Ulrich Drepper.
5930
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5931* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5932
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5933* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5934 Ulrich Drepper.
5935
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5936* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5937
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5938* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5939 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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5942
5943* More overflow detection functions.
5944
5945* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5946 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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5948 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5949 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5950 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5951 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5952 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5953 by Masahide Washizawa.
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5956 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5958* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5959 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5960 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5961 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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5963* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5964 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5965
5966* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5967
5968* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5969 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5970 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5971
5972* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5973 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5974
5975* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5976 for compatibility with some other systems.
5977
5978* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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5980Version 2.3.6
5981
5982* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5983
5984 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5985 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5986 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5987 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5988 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5989 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5990
5a82c748 5991 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5993* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5994
5995* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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5997Version 2.3.5
5998
5999* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6000
6001 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
6002 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
6003 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
6004 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
6005
5a82c748 6006 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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6009
6010* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
6011 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6013* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
6014 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
6015 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6016
6017* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6018 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6019
0325dd20 6020* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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6021 efficiently.
6022 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6023
6024* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6025 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6026 handling data.
6027
6028* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6029 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 6030 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6032* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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6033 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6034
6035* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6036 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6037 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6038 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6039
6040* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6041 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6042 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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6043 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6044
6045* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6046 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6047 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6048 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6049 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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6051Version 2.3.3
6052
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6053* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6054 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6055
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6056* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6057 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 6058
69be6aaf 6059* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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6060 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6061
6062* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6063 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6064
6065* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6066 by Roland McGrath.
6067
c5af724c 6068* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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6069 and Ulrich Drepper.
6070
6071* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6072 RFC 3484.
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6074Version 2.3.2
6075
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6076* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6077 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6078 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6079 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6080 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6081 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6082 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6083 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6084 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6085
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6086* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6087 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6088 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6089
6090* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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6091
6092* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6093 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 6094
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6095* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6096 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6097
52a16e58 6098* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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6100* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6101 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
9ef0a840 6102
7f0d9e61 6103* With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
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6104 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6105 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6106 of weak definition in ld.so.
6107
6108* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6109 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6110
6111* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6112 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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03a2c647 6114Version 2.3
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6116* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6117 charsets.
6118
6119* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6120 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 6121
bb0ec5bd 6122* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 6123 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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6124
6125* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6126 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 6127
bb0ec5bd 6128* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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6129 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6130 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6131
6132* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6133 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 6134
bb0ec5bd 6135* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 6136 implementation of regex.
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6137
6138* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6139 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 6140
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6141* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6142 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 6143
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6144* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6145 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6146 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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6147
6148* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 6149 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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6150
6151* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6152 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6153 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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6154
6155* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6156 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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6157
6158* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6159 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6160 and Ulrich Drepper.
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6161
6162* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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6164Version 2.2.6
6165
6166* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6167 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6168
6169* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6170 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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6172Version 2.2.5
6173
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6174* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6175 128-bit long double format.
a8ae31c2 6176
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6177* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6178 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 6179
ad2e4f18 6180* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 6181
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6182* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6183
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6184* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6185 as well.
6186
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6187* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6188 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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6189
6190* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
7d0c5823 6191\f
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6192Version 2.2.4
6193
2995f70e 6194* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 6195 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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6196
6197* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6198 support Unicode 3.1.
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6199
6200* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6201 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 6202
69d5f925 6203* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 6204
69d5f925 6205* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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6206 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6207 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6208
6209* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6210 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6211
6212* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6213 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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6214
6215* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
33996419 6216\f
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6217Version 2.2.3
6218
1746f2b0 6219* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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6220 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6221 in float, double, and long double format.
6222
f128331c 6223* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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6224 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6225 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 6226
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6227* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6228 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6229 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6230 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6231
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6232* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6233 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6234 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6235
6236* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6237 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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6238
6239* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6240 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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6241
6242* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6243 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6244 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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6245
6246* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6247 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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6248
6249* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6250 of functions for Linux/x86.
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6251
6252* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
2ace5721 6253\f
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6254Version 2.2.2
6255
464d97ec 6256* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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6257 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6258 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6259 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6260 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6261 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6262 other headers.
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6263
6264* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6265 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6266
6267* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6268 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6269 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6270 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6271
6272* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6273 locales. While
6274
6275 locale -a
6276
6277 only lists the names of the supported locales
6278
6279 locale -a --verbose
6280
6281 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6282 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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6284Version 2.2.1
6285
6286* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6287 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6288 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6289 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6290 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6291
6292 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6293
6294 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6295
6296 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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6297
6298* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6299 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6300 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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6301
6302* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6303 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6304
6305* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6306 changed from the default "C" locale.
6307
6308* The usual bug fixes.
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6310Version 2.2
6311
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6312* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6313 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6314 is in progress.
6315
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6316* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6317
793bd4d9 6318* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 6319
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6320 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6321 obviously requires a database library being available.
6322
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6323* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6324
abbffdf9 6325* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 6326
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6327* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6328 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6329
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6330* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6331
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6332* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6333 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6334 and Mark Kettenis.
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6335
6336 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6337 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6338 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 6339
a00c3ca9 6340 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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6341 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6342
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6343* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6344 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6345 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6346
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6347* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6348 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6349 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6350 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6351
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6352 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6353 structures for the wide character tables.
6354
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6355* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6356
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6357* The utmp daemon has been removed.
6358
6359* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6360
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6361* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6362 and Yutaka Niibe.
6363
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6364* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6365
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6366* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6367
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6368* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6369
6370* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6371
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6372* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6373
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6374* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6375 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6376 implemented for Linux.
6377
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6378* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6379 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6380 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6381 versions.
6382
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6383* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6384 Masahide Washizawa.
6385
8f3f1e09 6386* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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6387\f
6388Version 2.1.3
6389
6390* bug fixes
6391
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6392\f
6393Version 2.1.2
6394
6395* bug fixes
6396
28f540f4 6397\f
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6398Version 2.1.1
6399
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6400* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6401
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6402* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6403
407d26b7 6404* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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6405
6406* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6407
407d26b7 6408* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 6409
407d26b7 6410* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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6411
6412* Update timezone data files.
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6414* lots of charmaps corrections
6415
6416* some new locale definitions and charmaps
6417
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6419Version 2.1
6420
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6421* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6422 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6423 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6424 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6425 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6426 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6427
c84142e8 6428* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 6429 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 6430
1fb05e3d 6431* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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6432 symbol level.
6433
7f0d9e61 6434* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
c84142e8 6435 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 6436
cbdee279 6437* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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6438
6439* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 6440 numbers.
377a515b 6441
cbdee279 6442* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 6443
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6444* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6445 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 6446
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6447* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6448 library.
6449
e61abf83 6450* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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6451 functions from ISO C 9X.
6452
6453* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6454 real valued functions.
e61abf83 6455
a5a0310d 6456* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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6458* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6459
6460* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 6461
440d13e2 6462* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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6463
6464* Optimized string functions have been added.
6465
6466* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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6467
6468* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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6470* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6471 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6472
6473 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6474 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6475
0dee6738 6476 user system wall
48244d09 6477
0dee6738 6478 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 6479
0dee6738 6480 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 6481
0dee6738 6482 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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6484 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6485
6486 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6487
6488 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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6490 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6491 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 6492 horribly slow.
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6494 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6495 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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6496
6497* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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6498
6499* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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6500
6501* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6502 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6503
6504* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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6506* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6507 Bambrough.
6508
6509* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6510 latest draft standards.
6511
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6512* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6513
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6514* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6515~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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48244d09 6517alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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6518argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6519argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6520argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6521argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6522argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6523argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6524argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6525argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6526argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6527argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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6528authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6529authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6530authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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6531backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6532backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6533backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6534cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
6535cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6536cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6537cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6538cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6539cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6540capget NEW: kernel
6541capset NEW: kernel
6542carg NEW: ISO C 9x
6543cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
6544cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
6545casin NEW: ISO C 9x
6546casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6547casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6548casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6549casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6550casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6551catan NEW: ISO C 9x
6552catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6553catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6554catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6555catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6556catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6559ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6560ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6561ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6562ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6563ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6564cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
6565cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
6566cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
6567cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
6568cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6569cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6570clearerr_locked REMOVED
6571clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6572clog NEW: ISO C 9x
6573clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6574clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6575clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6576clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
6577clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
6578conj NEW: ISO C 9x
6579conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
6580conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
6581cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
6582cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
6583cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
6584cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
6585cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6586cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6587creal NEW: ISO C 9x
6588crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6589creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6590creat64 NEW: LFS
6591csin NEW: ISO C 9x
6592csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6593csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6594csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6595csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6596csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6597csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
6598csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6599csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6600ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
6601ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6602ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6603ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6604ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6605ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6607ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6608endutxent NEW: Unix98
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6610exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6611exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6612exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6613exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6614exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6615fattach NEW: STREAMS
6616fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6617fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
6618fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
6619fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
6620feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6621fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6622fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6623fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6624feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6625feof_locked REMOVED
6626feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6627ferror_locked REMOVED
6628fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6629fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6630fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6631fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6632feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6633fflush_locked REMOVED
6634ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
6635ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
6636fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
6637fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6638fileno_locked REMOVED
6639fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6640fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6641fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6642fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6643fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6644fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6645fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6646fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6647fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 6648fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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6650fputc_locked REMOVED
6651fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6652fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6653freopen64 NEW: LFS
6654fseeko NEW: Unix98
6655fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
6656fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
6657fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6658fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
6659ftello NEW: Unix98
6660ftello64 NEW: LFS
6661ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6662ftw64 NEW: LFS
6663fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6664gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6665gamma_r REMOVED
6666gammaf_r REMOVED
6667gammal_r REMOVED
6668getchar_locked REMOVED
6669getdate NEW: Unix98
6670getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6671getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6672getmsg NEW: STREAMS
6673getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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6676getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6677getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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6678getutxent NEW: Unix98
6679getutxid NEW: Unix98
6680getutxline NEW: Unix98
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6682globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6683gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6684gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6685grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 6686host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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6688iconv_close NEW: iconv
6689iconv_open NEW: iconv
6690if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6691if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6692if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6693if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6694in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6695in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6696inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6697isastream NEW: STREAMS
6698iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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6699key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6700key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6701key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6702key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6703key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6704key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6705key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6706key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6707key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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6709llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6710llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6711llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6712llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6713llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6714log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6715log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6716log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6717lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6718lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6719lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6720lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6721lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6722lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6723lseek64 NEW: LFS
6724makecontext NEW: Unix98
6725mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6726mmap64 NEW: LFS
6727moncontrol REMOVED
6728modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6729nan NEW: ISO C 9x
6730nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6731nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6732nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6733nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6734nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6736netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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6738nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6739nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6741nftw64 NEW: LFS
6742open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 6743passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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6745pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6746pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6747pread NEW: Unix98
6748pread64 NEW: LFS
6749printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6750printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6751profil_counter REMOVED
6752pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6753pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6754ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6755ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6756putc_locked REMOVED
6757putchar_locked REMOVED
6758putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6759putmsg NEW: STREAMS
6760putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 6761pututxline NEW: Unix98
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6763pwrite64 NEW: LFS
6764readdir64 NEW: LFS
6765readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6766remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6767remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6768remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6769round NEW: ISO C 9x
6770roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6771roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6772rtime NEW: GNU ext.
6773scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6774scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6775scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6776scandir64 NEW: LFS
6777sendfile NEW: kernel
6778setcontext NEW: Unix98
6779setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 6780setutxent NEW: Unix98
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6782sigignore NEW: Unix98
6783sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6784sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6785sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6786sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6787sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6788sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6789sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6790sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6791statfs64 NEW: LFS
6792statvfs NEW: Unix98
6793statvfs64 NEW: LFS
6794strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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6795strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6796strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6797strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
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6799svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6800svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6801swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6802tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6803tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6804tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6805tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6806tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6807tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
6808trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
6809truncate64 NEW: LFS
6810truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6811truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6812umount2 NEW: kernel
6813unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 6814updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 6815user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6816utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 6817versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 6818versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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6819waitid NEW: Unix98
6820wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6821wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6822wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6823wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6824wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6825wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6826wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6827wcswcs NEW: Unix98
6828wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6829wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6830write_profiling REMOVED
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6832xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6833xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6834xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6835xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6836xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6837xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6838xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6839xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6840xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6841xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6842xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6843xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 6844xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
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6848Version 2.0.6
6849
6850* more bug fixes
6851
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6852\f
6853Version 2.0.5
6854
6855* more bug fixes
6856
6857* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6858
6859* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6860
6861* rewrite of cbrt function
6862
6863* update of timezone data
6864\f
6865Version 2.0.4
6866
6867* more bug fixes
6868\f
6869Version 2.0.3
6870
6871* more bug fixes
c84142e8 6872\f
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6874
6875* more bug fixes
6876
6877* add atoll function
6878
6879* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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6881* fix math functions
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6882\f
6883Version 2.0.1
6884
6885* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6886
6887* dynamic loader preserves all registers
6888
6889* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6890 the ELF dynamic loader.
6891
6892* support for parallel builds is improved
6893\f
40a4b79f 6894Version 2.0
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6896* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6897 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6898 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
6899
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6900* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6901 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6902 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6903 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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6904 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6905 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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6906 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6907 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6908 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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6909 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6910 files in the ELF format.
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6911
6912* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6913 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6914
6915* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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6916 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6917 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6918 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6919 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6920 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6921 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6922 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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6923 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6924 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6925 about dynamically linked binaries.
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6927* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6928 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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6929 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6930 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6931 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 6932
f7eac6eb 6933* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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6934 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6935 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6936 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6937 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6938
6939* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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6941* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6942 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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6943 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6944 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6945 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6946 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6947 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6948 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6949 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 6950
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6951* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6952 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6953 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6954
6955* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6956 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6957 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6958
6959* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6960 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6961 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6962 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6963
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6964* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6965 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6966 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6967
6968* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6969 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6970 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6971
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6972* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6973 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6974
f7eac6eb 6975* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 6976 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 6977 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7f0d9e61 6978 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
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6980* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6981 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6982 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 6983
71733723 6984* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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6985 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6986 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6987 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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6988 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6989 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 6990 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 6991 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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6992
6993* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6994 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6995 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6996 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6997 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6998 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6999 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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7000
7001* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
7002 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
7003 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
7004 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
7005 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
7006 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
7007
7008* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
7009 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7010
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7012 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
7013 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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7015* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7016
7017* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7018 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7019 their use is discouraged.
7020
7021* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7022 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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7024* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7025 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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7026
7027* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7028 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7029
7030* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7031 see <dirent.h>.
7032
7033* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7034 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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7035 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7036 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7037 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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7039* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7040 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7041 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7042 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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7043
7044* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7045 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7046
7047* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7048 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7049 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7050 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7051 number generator.
7052
7053* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7054 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7055
7056* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7057 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7058
71733723 7059* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 7060 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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7061 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7062 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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7065
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7066* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7067 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7068 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7069
7070* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7071 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 7073* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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7074 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7075 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7076 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7077
7078* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7079 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7080 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7081 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7082 programs already written to use it.)
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7083
7084* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7085 constants.
7086
7087* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7088 with 4.4 BSD.
7089
7090* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7091 a given effective group ID.
7092
7093* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7094 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7095 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7096 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7097
7098* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 7099 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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7100 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7101 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7102 doing the same thing.
7103
7104* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7105 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7106
7107* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 7108 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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7109
7110* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7111
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7112* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7113 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7114 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 7115 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 7116 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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7117
7118* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7119 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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7120
7121* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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7122 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7123 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7124 function.
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7125
7126* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7127
7128* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7129 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7130 strings.
7131
7132* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7133 and writing the utmp file.
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7134
7135* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7136 Thorsten Kukuk.
7137
7138* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7139 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7140 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7141
7142* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7143 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7144
7145* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7146 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7147 specification.
7148
7149* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7150 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7151 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7152 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7153
7154* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7155 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7156 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7157
7158* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7159 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7160 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7161 expression matcher.
7162
7163* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7164 functionality.
7165
7166* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7167 by Ulrich Drepper.
7168
7169* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7170
7171* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7172 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7173 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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7174\f
7175Version 1.09
7176
7177* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7178
7179* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7180 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7181
7182* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7183 want to put themselves in the background.
7184
7185* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7186 run without an operating system.
7187
7188* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7189 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7190
7191* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7192 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7193
7194* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7195
7196* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7197 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7198 have YP (aka NIS).
7199
7200* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7201 conventions.
7202
7203* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7204 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7205\f
7206Version 1.08
7207
7208* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7209 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7210 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7211
7212* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7213 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7214
7215* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7216 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7217
7218* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7219
7220* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7221
7222* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7223 compatibility.
7224
7225* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7226 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7227 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7228
7229* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7230
7231* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7232 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7233 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7234
7235* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7236 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7237 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7238 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7239 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7240 on a block).
7241
7242* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7243 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7244 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7245 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7246 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7247 cross-compiler.
7248
7249* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7250 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7251\f
7252Version 1.07
7253
7254* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7255 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7256
7257* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7258 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7259 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7260
7261* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7262 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7263 address of the last character written.
7264
7265* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7266 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7267
7268* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7269 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7270
7271* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7272 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7273 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7274 you dereference this pointer.
7275
7276* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7277 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7278
7279* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7280 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7281 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7282 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7283
7284* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7285 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7286 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7287 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7288\f
7289Version 1.06
7290
7291* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7292 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7293 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7294 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 7295 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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7296
7297* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7298
7299* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7300
7301* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7302 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7303
7304* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7305 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7306
7307* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7308 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7309
7310* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7311 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7312 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7313 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7314 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7315
7316* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7317 to the error code in `errno'.
7318
7319* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7320 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7321 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7322 malloc'd string.
7323
7324* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7325 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7326 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7327
7328* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7329 uniquely-named temporary file.
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7331Version 1.05
7332
7333* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7334 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7335 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7336
7337* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7338 characters.
7339
7340* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7341 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7342
7343* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7344\f
7345Version 1.04
7346
7347* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7348 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7349 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7350 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7351
7352* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7353 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7354 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7355
7356* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7357 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7358
7359* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7360 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7361 made itself into a shared library.
7362
7363* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7364 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7365
7366* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7367 with limited length.
7368
7369* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7370
7371* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7372
7373* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7374
7375* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7376 function for traversing a directory tree.
7377
7378* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7379 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7380 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7381 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7382
7383* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7384 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7385
7386* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7387
7388* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7389 things to your strings.
7390
7391* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7392
7393* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7394 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7395 supporting those systems.
7396
7397* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7398 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7399 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7400 configuration files.
7401
7402* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7403 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7404
7405* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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7406 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7407 in <strings.h>.)
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7408
7409* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7410 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7411 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7412 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7413 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7414 required storage is not available.
7415
7416* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7417 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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7418
7419* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7420 latest files released from Berkeley.
7421\f
7422----------------------------------------------------------------------
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7424
7425 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
7426 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
7427 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
7428 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
7429
7430 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
7431 of this document, or of portions of it,
7432 under the above conditions, provided also that they
7433 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
7434\f
7435Local variables:
7436version-control: never
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