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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2b778ceb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.35
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10Major new features:
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12* Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
13 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
14 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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16* Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
17 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
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19* Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
20 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
21 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
22 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
23 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
24 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
25 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
26 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
27 glibc, and must be installed.
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29* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
30 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
31 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
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33 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
34 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
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36 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
37 fMxfmafNx functions.
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39* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
40 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
41 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
42 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
43 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
44 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
45
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46* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
47 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
48
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49* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
50 macro in <tgmath.h>.
51
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52* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
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54* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
55 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
56 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
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58* A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
59 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
60 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
61 object dependency cases.
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63* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
64 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
65 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
66 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
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68* ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
69 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
70 return value is only used for its boolean status.
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72* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
73 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
74 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
75 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
76 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
77 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
78 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
79 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
80 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
81 Restartable Sequences.
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83* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
84 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
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86* All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
87 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
88 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
89 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
90 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
91 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
92 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
93 configuration.
94
5f6d8d97 95* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
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96 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
97 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
98 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
99 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
100 huge pages.
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102* The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
103 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
104
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105Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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107* On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
108 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
109 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
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111* The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
112 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
113
114 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
115 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
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117 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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119* Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
120
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121* The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
122 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
123 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
124
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125Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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127 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
128
129Security related changes:
130
131 [Add security related changes here]
132
133The following bugs are resolved with this release:
134
135 [The release manager will add the list generated by
136 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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139Version 2.34
140
141Major new features:
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143* In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
144 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
145 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
146 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
147 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
148 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
149 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
150 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
151 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
152 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
153 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
154 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
155 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
156 potentially exposing application bugs.
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158* When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
159 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
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160 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
161 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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163* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
164 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
57fb02b2 165 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
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166 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
167 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
168 Arm SVE.
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170* The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
171 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
172 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
173
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174* On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
175 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
176 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
177 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
178
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179* The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
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181* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
182 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
183 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
184 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
185 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
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187* On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
188 --disable-scv configure option.
189
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190* Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
191 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
192 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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193 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
194 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
195 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
196 version of 5.1.
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198* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
199 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
200 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
201 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
202 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
203 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
204 that directory.
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206* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
207 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
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209* The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
210 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
211 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
212 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
213 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
214 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
215 is currently a GNU extension.
216
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217* On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
218 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
219
60744950 220* The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
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221 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
222 although it is also present in other systems.
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224* The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
225 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
226 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
227 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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229* When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
230 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
231 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
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233* The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
234 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
235
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236Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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238* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
239 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
240 instead.
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242* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
243 programs should use the equivalent standard function
244 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
245
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246* The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
247 programs should use the equivalent standard function
248 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
249
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250* The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
251 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
252
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253* The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
254
255* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
256 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
257 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
258 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
259 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
260 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
261 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
262 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
263 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
264 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
265 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
266
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267* Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
268 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
269 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
270 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
271 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
272 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
273 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
274 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
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276* The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
277 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
cfdaa29f 278 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
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279 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
280 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
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281 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
282 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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284* Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
285 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
286 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
287 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
288 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
289 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
290 upgrade or downgrade process.
291
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292* The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
293 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
294 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
295
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296* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
297 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
298 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
299 no longer have any effect on malloc.
300
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301* Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
302 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
303 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
304 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
305 this functionality back.
306
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307* The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
308 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
309 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
310 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
311
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312* The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
313 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
314 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
315 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
316 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
317 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
318 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
319 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
320 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
321
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322Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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324* On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
325 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
326 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
327 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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329Security related changes:
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332 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
333 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
334 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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336 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
337 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
338 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
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340 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
341 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
342 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
343
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344The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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346 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
347 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
348 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
349 given integer (closefrom)
350 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
351 name containing multi-byte character(s)
352 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
353 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
354 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
355 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
356 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
357 random thread
358 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
359 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
360 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
361 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
362 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
363 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
364 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
365 manual is incorrect
366 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
367 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
368 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
369 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
370 pthread_create and dlopen
371 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
372 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
373 when non-root user changes priority
374 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
375 dlopen
376 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
377 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
378 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
379 ordered correctly
380 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
381 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
382 data.
383 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
384 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
385 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
386 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
387 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
388 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
389 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
390 the right free implementation
391 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
392 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
393 shm_open to pick wrong directory
394 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
395 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
396 protector=all)
397 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
398 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
399 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
400 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
401 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
402 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
403 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
404 uninitialized
405 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
406 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
407 system calls
408 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
409 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
410 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
411 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
412 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
413 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
414 deployments
415 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
416 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
417 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
418 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
419 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
420 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
421 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
422 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
423 is present
424 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
425 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
426 protector=all
427 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
428 information for the current directory
429 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
430 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
431 dl_runtime_resolve_*
432 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
433 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
434 containers
435 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
436 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
437 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
438 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
439 INT_MAX
440 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
441 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
442 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
443 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
444 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
445 tries resolving them lazily
446 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
447 libthread_db
448 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
449 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
450 argument
451 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
452 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
453 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
454 not set ENOMEM
455 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
456 randomization
457 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
458 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
459 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
460 IS_ERR_VALUE
461 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
462 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
463 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
464 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
465 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
466 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
467 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
468 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
469 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
470 with n >= 0x80000000
471 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
472 thread never allocated anything
473 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
474 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
475 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
476 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
477 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
478 on older kernels
479 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
480 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
481 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
482 AMD64 cpus
483 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
484 terminator
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487Version 2.33
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489Major new features:
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491* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
492 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
493 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
494
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496 to change argv[0] string.
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498* The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
499 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
500 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
501 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
502 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
503 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
504 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
505 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
506 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
507
508* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
509 information and library search path diagnostics.
510
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512 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
513 larger than fit in an integer.
514
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517* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
518 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
519
520 - rv32imac ilp32
521 - rv32imafdc ilp32
522 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
523
524 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
525 2.28.
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528 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
529 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
530 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
531 fortification.
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536 mallinfo2 instead.
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539 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
540 Instead, the default implementation is used.
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543 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
544 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
545 prlimit.
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548 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
549 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
550
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552 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
553 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
554 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
555 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
556 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
557
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559 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
560 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
561 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
562 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
563 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
564 loaded.
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569 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
570 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
571 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
572 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
573 perform any adjustments.
574
575* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
576 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
577 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
578 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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583
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587 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
588 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
589
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590 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
591 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
592 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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595 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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598 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
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602 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
603 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
604 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
605 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
606 AT_EACCESS
607 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
597d0267 608 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
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610 "haswell" platform subdirectory
611 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
612 with GCC
613 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
614 stack-protector=all
615 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
616 cases
617 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
618 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
619 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
620 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
621 changing gnuc version
622 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
623 incorrect
624 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
625 bits
626 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
627 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
628 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
629 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
630 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
631 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
632 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
633 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
634 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
635 too much stack space
636 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
637 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
638 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
639 with optimization.
640 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
641 anymore
642 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
643 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
644 non-FMA4 system
645 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
646 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
647 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
648 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
649 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
650 getaddrinfo
651 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
652 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
653 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
654 fault
655 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
656 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
657 at the end of a memory mapping
658 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
659 by the caller to the kernel
660 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
661 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
662 declarations for __sigsetjmp
663 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
664 monotonic clocks
665 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
666 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
667 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
668 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
669 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
670 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
671 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
672 one element
673 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
674 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
675 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
676 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
677 lazy bound
678 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
679 PI mutexes
680 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
681 not safe
682 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
683 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
684 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
685 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
686 platform
687 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
688 startup code
689 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
690 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
691 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
692 protected
693 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
694 only since 2.31
695 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
696 locked
697 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
698 aligned
699 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
700 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
701 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
702 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
703 detection logic
704 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
705 pclose(3))
706 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
707 setup
708 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
709 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
710 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
711 work
712 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
713 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
714 [27177] dynamic-link:
715 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
716 work
717 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
718 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
719 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
720 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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725Major new features:
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727* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
728 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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729 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
730
731* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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734 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
735 Three ABIs are supported:
736
737 - arc-linux-gnu
738 - arc-linux-gnuhf
739 - arceb-linux-gnu
740
4d3a77c7 741 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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742 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
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745 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
746
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750 this option.
751
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753 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
754 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
755
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758 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
759
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760* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
761 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
762 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
763 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
764 libpthread.
765
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768 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
769 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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771 NULL for an invalid signal number.
772
773 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
774 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
775
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778 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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779 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
780 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
781 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
782
783 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
784 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
785
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787 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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789 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
790 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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792 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
793 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
794 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
795 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
796 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
797 BTI compatible.
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802 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
803 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
804 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
805 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
806 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
807 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
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810 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
811 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
812 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
813 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
814 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
815 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
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820 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
821 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
822 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
823 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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826 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
827 was not declared in any header file.
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830 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
831 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
832 sigaction functions instead.
833
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835 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
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838 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
839 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
840 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
841 strsignal instead.
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844 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 845 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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847 strerror or strerror_r instead.
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850 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
851 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
852 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
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854* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
855 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
856 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
857 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
858 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
859 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
860 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
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863 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
864 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
865 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
866 flavor of secure RPC.)
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869 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
870 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
871 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
872 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
873 object, to enable the hooks.
874
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876 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
877 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
878 LDAP.
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883 long double redirects.
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885Security related changes:
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888 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
889 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
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892 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
893 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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896 expanding ~user has been fixed.
897
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899 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
900 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
901 TALOS-2020-1019).
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906 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
907 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
908 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
909 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
910 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
911 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
912 filtee has constructor
913 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
914 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
915 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
916 character entities for infinity & pi
917 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
918 segfaults in applications
919 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
920 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
921 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
922 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
923 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
924 function with -mlong-double-64
925 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
926 binding
927 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
928 ld.so.cache
929 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
930 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
931 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
932 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
933 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
934 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
935 linker
936 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
937 dynamically loaded dsos
938 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
939 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
940 access
941 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
942 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
943 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
944 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
945 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
946 stale configuration forever
947 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
948 (CVE-2020-10029)
949 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
950 defaults to PIE
951 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
952 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
953 (CVE-2020-6096)
954 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
955 on 32 bit and old kernel
956 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
957 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
958 Occitan
959 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
960 amount of sigset_t bytes
961 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
962 strings
963 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
964 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
965 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
966 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
967 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
968 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
969 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
970 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
971 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
972 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
973 size_t
974 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
975 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
976 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
977 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
978 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
979 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
980 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
981 cpu=power9
982 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
983 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
984 segfault
985 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
986 exiting detached thread
987 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
988 for x32
989 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
990 ERANGE
991 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
992 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
993 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
994 dependencies in audit mode
995 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
996 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
997 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
998 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
999 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1000 input
1001 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1002 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1003 preserve r2
1004 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1005 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1006 variables
1007 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1008 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1009 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1010 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1011 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1012 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1013 corruption in memset
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1017
1018Major new features:
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1020* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1021 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1022 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1023 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1024 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1025 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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1027* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1028 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1029 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1030 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1031
69ca4b54 1032* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 1033 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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1035
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1036* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1037
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1038* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1039 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1040 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1041 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1042 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1043 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1044 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1045 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1046
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1048
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1050 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1051 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1052 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1053 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1054 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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1058 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1059
1060* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1061 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1062 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1063 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1064
1065* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1066 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1067 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1068 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1069 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1070 made this no longer practical.
1071
1072 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1073 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1074 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1075 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1076 release.)
1077
1078 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1079 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1080 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1081
1082 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1083 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1084 using clock_gettime instead.
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1087 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1088 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1089 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1090 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1091
1092 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1093 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1094 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1095 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1096
1097 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1098 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1099 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1100 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1101 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1102 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1103
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1105 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1106 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1107 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1108 offset API.
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1110* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1111 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1112 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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1114 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1115 configurations.
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1118 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1119 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1120 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1121 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1122
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1124 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1125 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1126 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1127 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1128 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1129 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1130 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1131
1132 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1133 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1134
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1136 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1137 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1138 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1139 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1140 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1141
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1143
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1146 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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1149 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1150 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1151
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1153
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1154 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1155 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1156
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1157 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1158 environment variable during program execution after a security
1159 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1160 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1161 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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1163The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1165 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1166 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1167 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1168 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1169 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1170 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1171 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1172 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1173 linking failure
1174 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1175 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1176 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1177 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1178 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1179 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1180 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1181 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1182 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1183 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1184 7408-2005
1185 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1186 with localedef
1187 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1188 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1189 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1190 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1191 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1192 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1193 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1194 utmp entries
1195 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1196 ABSOLUTE ABI
1197 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1198 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1199 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1200 (stringop-overflow error)
1201 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1202 functions other can lead to crashes
1203 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1204 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1205 unconditionally
1206 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1207 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1208 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1209 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1210 still can fail with an error
1211 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1212 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1213 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1214 initialized correctly
1215 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1216 -frewrite-includes
1217 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1218 value to an unsigned
1219 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1220 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1221 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1222 protection
1223 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1224 ifunc variant.
1225 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1226 al. for Clang++
1227 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1228 (Slovenian)
1229 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1230 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1231 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1232 with -std=c11
1233 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1234 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1235 part
1236 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1237 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1238 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1239 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1240 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1241 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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1244Version 2.30
1245
1246Major new features:
1247
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1248* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1249 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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1250 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1251
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1252* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1253 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1255* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1256 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1257 to the callback function.
1258
51ea67d5 1259* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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1261* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1262 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1263 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
1264
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1265* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1266
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1267* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1268 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1269 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1270 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1271 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1272
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1273* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1274 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1275 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1276 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1277 link time reference, is gone.
1278
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1280 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1281 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1282 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1283 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1284 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1285 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1286 the clock choice at initialization time).
1287
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1288* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1289 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1290 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1291
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1292Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1293
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1294* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1295 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1296 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1297 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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1298 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1299 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1300 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1301 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1302 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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1304* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1305 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1306 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1307 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1308 since glibc 2.17.
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1311 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
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1313* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1314 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1315
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1316* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1317 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1318
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1319* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1320 BIND_NOW flag.
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1322* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1323 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1324 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1325
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1326* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1327 header have been removed.
1328
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1329* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1330 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1331 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1332 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
1333
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1337
1338 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1339 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1341Security related changes:
1342
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1343 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1344 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1345 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1346 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1347 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1348 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1349 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1351 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1352 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1353 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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1357 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1358 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1359 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1360 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1361 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1362 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1363 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1364 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1365 invalid input drops valid char
1366 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1367 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1368 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1369 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1370 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1371 malloc.h.
1372 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1373 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1374 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1375 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1376 functions
1377 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1378 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1379 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1380 for long double = double
1381 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1382 long double = double
1383 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1384 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1385 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1386 long timeouts
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1388 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1389 checking for NULL.
1390 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1391 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1392 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1393 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1394 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1395 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1396 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1397 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1398 not the default "nor"
1399 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1400 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1401 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1402 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1403 compiler barriers.
1404 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1405 unnecessary librt dependencies
1406 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1407 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1408 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1409 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1410 unsorted chunk
1411 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1412 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1413 to R_SPARC_H44
1414 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1415 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1416 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1417 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1418 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1419 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1420 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1421 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1422 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1423 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1424 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1425 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1426 was not used
1427 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1428 tests
1429 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1430 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1431 time_t changes
1432 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1433 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1434 kernels and break testing
1435 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1436 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1437 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1438 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1439 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1440 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1441 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1442 -O3 -march=skylake
1443 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1444 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1445 crash
1446 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1447 linked glibc
1448 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1449 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1450 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1451 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1452 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1453 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1454 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1455 always implemented in the same library
1456 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1457 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1458 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1459 testroot
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1463
1464Major new features:
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1467 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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1469* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1470 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1471 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1472 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1473 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1474 configured location.
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1479 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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1482 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1483 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1484 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1485 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1486 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1487 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1488 process actually does not use HTM).
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1491 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1492 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1493 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1494 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1495 of the same name.
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1498 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1499 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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1504 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1505 supported:
1506 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1507 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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1510 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1511 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1512 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1513 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1514 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1515 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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1518 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1519 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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1524 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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1527 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1528 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1529 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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1532 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1533 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1534 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1535 structures.
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1538 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1539 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1540 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1541 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1542 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1543
1544 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1545 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1546 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1547 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1548 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1549
1550 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1551 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1552 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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1555
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1559 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1560
1561 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1562 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1566 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1567 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1568 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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1571 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1572 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1573 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1574 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1576 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1577 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1578 or command injection issues in applications.
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1582 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1583 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1584 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1585 thousands
1586 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1587 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1588 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1589 --param options)
1590 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1591 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1592 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1593 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1594 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1595 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1596 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1597 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1598 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1599 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1600 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1601 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1602 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1603 pointer argument is non-NULL
1604 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1605 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1606 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1607 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1608 multithreads call popen
1609 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1610 and pthread_create fails.
1611 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1612 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1613 constructor
1614 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1615 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1616 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1617 source tree
1618 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1619 float
1620 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1621 one error
1622 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1623 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1624 linker
1625 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1626 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1627 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1628 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1629 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1630 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1631 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1632 filesystems
1633 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1634 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1635 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1636 functions
1637 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1638 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1639 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1640 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1641 have wrong type
1642 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1643 wrong type
1644 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1645 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1646 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1647 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1648 threads
1649 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1650 start.S
1651 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1652 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1653 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1654 powerpc64le
1655 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1656 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1657 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1658 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1659 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1660 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1661 strftime
1662 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1663 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1664 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1665 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1666 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1667 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1668 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1669 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1670 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1671 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1672 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1673 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1674 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1675 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1676 tcache size
1677 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1678 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1679 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1680 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1681 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1682 (CVE-2018-19591)
1683 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1684 nearest rounding mode
1685 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1686 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1687 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1688 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1689 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1690 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1691 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1692 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1693 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1694 error
1695 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1696 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1697 using GCC 8
1698 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1699 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1700 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1701 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1702 ppc64le
1703 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1704 expected result
1705 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1706 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1707 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1708 sigaltstack
1709 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1710 answers will be rejected)
1711 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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1716Major new features:
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1719 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1720 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1721 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1722 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1723 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1724 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1725 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1726 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1727 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1728 archive or binary locales.
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1731 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1732 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1733 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1734 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1735 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1736 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1737 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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1739 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1740 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1741 validated for i686.
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1744 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1745 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1746 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1747 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1748 field) to indicate such support is required.
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1751 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1752 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1754* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1755 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1756
1757 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1758 fMxaddfNx functions.
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1760 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1761 fMxsubfNx functions.
1762
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1763 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1764 fMxmulfNx functions.
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1766 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1767 fMxdivfNx functions.
1768
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df467d22 1770 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
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1773 and Kashubian.
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1779 patches.
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1782 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1783 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1784 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1785 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1786 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1787 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1788 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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1791 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1792 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1793 the fstatat64 function.
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1795* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1796 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1797 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1798 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1799 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1800 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1801 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1802 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1803 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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1806 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1807 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1808 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1809 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1810 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1811 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1812 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1813 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1814 results in a load failure now.
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1817 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1818 <threads.h>:
1819
1820 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1821 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1822
1823 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1824 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1825
1826 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1827
1828 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1829 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1830
1831 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1832
1833 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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1837* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1838 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1839 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1840
1841* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1842 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1843 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1844 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1845 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1846 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1847
1848* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1849 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1850 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1851 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1852 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1853 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1854 (Bug #1190.)
1855
1856* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1857 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1858 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1859 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1860 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1861 further explanation.
1862
1863 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1864 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1865 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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1867* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
1868
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1869* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1870 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1871 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
1872
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1873* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1874 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1875 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1876 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
1877
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1878* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1879 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1880 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1881 for this function instead.
1882
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1883* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1884 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1885 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1886
1887* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1888 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1889 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1890 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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1892* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1893 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1894 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1895 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1896 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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1898* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1899 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1900 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1901 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1902 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1903 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1904 such as libgcrypt.
1905
1906* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1907 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1908 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1909 enabled.
1910
1911* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1912 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1913 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1914
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1915* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1916 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1917 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1918 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1919 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1920 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1921
1922 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1923 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1924 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1925 behavior in a future release.
1926
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1928
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1931Security related changes:
1932
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1933 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1934 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1935 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1936 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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1938 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1939 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1940
1941 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1942 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1943 Izbyshev.
1944
1945 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1946 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1947 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1948
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1950
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1951 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1952 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1953 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1954 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1955 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1956 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1957 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1958 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1959 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1960 14651
1961 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1962 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1963 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1964 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1965 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1966 conversion is given
1967 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1968 date
1969 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1970 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1971 scope with -O1 and higher
1972 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1973 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1974 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1975 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1976 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1977 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1978 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1979 horrible machine code)
1980 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1981 last constant.
1982 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1983 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1984 symbols
1985 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1986 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1987 defined
1988 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1989 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1990 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1991 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1992 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1993 fpscr.c'
1994 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1995 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1996 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1997 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1998 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1999 the base address
2000 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2001 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2002 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2003 open_verify
2004 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2005 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2006 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2007 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2008 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2009 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2010 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2011 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2012 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2013 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2014 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2015 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2016 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2017 dlopen
2018 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2019 AT_SECURE=1
2020 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2021 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2022 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2023 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2024 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2025 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2026 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2027 for Spanish with CLDR
2028 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2029 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2030 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2031 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2032 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2033 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2034 es_BO
2035 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2036 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
2037 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2038 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2039 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2040 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2041 dlopen failures
2042 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2043 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2044 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2045 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2046 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2047 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2048 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2049 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2050 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2051 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2052 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2053 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2054 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2055 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2056 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2057 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2058 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2059 makecontext
2060 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2061 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2062 required
2063 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2064 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2065 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2066 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2067 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2068 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2069 disabled
2070 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2071 failure
2072 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2073 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2074 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2075 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2076 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2077 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2078 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2079 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2080 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2081 and libc build with -Os)
2082 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2083 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2084 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2085 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2086 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2087 that changes /etc/passwd
2088 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2089 (CVE-2018-11237)
2090 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2091 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2092 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2093 posix/regcomp.c
2094 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2095 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2096 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2097 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2098 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2099 AT_SECURE
2100 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2101 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2102 parser.c
2103 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2104 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2105 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2106 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2107 directed rounding
2108 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2109 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2110 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2111 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2112 lookup
2113 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2114 interposition
2115 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2116 DSO boundaries.
2117 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2118 <linux/time.h>
2119 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2120 checking
2121 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2122 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2123 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2124 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2125 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2126 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2127 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2128 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2129 processors
2130 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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2133Version 2.27
2134
2135Major new features:
2136
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2137* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2138 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 2139 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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2140 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2141 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2142 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2143 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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2144 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2145 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 2146
ac817e08 2147* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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2148 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2149 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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2151* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2152
4cf82d23 2153* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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2155* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2156 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2157 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2158 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2159 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2160 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2161 from a security and performance perspective.
2162
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2163* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2164 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2165 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2166 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2167
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2170 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2171 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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2172 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2173
a23aa5b7 2174* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
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2176 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2177 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2178 _Float128.
2179
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2180* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2181 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2182 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 2183
4bab0224 2184* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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2186* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2187 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2188 pkey_get.
2189
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2190* The copy_file_range function was added.
2191
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2192* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2193
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2194* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2195 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2196 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
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2199 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2200 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2201 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2202 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2203 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2204 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2205
2206 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2207 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2208 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2209 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2210 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2211 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2212 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2213
2214 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2215 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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2217 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2218 respectively.
2219
2220 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2221 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2222 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2223 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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2225 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2226 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2227 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2228
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2230 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 2231 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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2234 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2235 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2236
2237 - rv64imac lp64
2238 - rv64imafdc lp64
2239 - rv64imafdc lp64d
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2244 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 2245 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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2247 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2248 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2249 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2250 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2251 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2252 fix this.
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2254* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2255 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2256 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2257
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2258* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2259 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2260 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2261 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2262 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2263 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2264 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2265 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2266 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2267 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2268 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2269 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2270 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2271 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2272 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2273 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2274 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2275 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2276 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2277 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2278 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2279 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2280 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2281 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2282 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2283 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2284
60e2846e
DL
2285* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2286 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
00cdcf5a 2287
813378e9
JM
2288* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2289 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2290 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2291 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2292 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2293 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2294 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2295
5a80d39d
JM
2296* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2297 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2298 exp10l for these functions instead.
2299
4fa9b3bf
JM
2300* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2301 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2302 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2303
644d3857
JM
2304* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2305 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2306 ignored.
2307
8df5d347
JM
2308* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2309 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2310 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2311 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2312
c0a25aa9
FW
2313* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2314 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2315
34eb4157
FW
2316* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2317 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2318
754034c4
JM
2319* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2320 programs.
2321
ed95f611
AZ
2322* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2323
48a8f832
ZW
2324* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2325 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2326 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2327 instead.
2328
2329 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2330 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2331 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2332 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2333 use, but predates the bits convention.
2334
00cdcf5a
SP
2335Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2336
1faaf703
JB
2337* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2338 subdirectory.
00cdcf5a
SP
2339
2340Security related changes:
2341
403143e1
FW
2342 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2343 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2344 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2345 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2346 script.)
00cdcf5a 2347
822f523b
FW
2348 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2349 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2350 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2351 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 2352
914c9994
FW
2353 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2354 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2355 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2356 of service.
2357
15e84c63
AJ
2358 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2359 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
a159b53f
PE
2360 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2361
37ac8e63
FW
2362 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2363 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2364 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2365 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2366
8a0b17e4
FW
2367 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2368 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2369 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2370 Qualys.
2371
3ff3dfa5
FW
2372 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2373 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2374 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2375 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2376 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2377
3e3c904d
AJ
2378 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2379 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2380 current directory.
2381
52a713fd
DL
2382 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2383 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2384 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2385
4590634f
FW
2386 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2387 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2388 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2389
71aa429b
FW
2390 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2391 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2392 small, instead of NULL.
2393
00cdcf5a
SP
2394The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2395
242cbc90
DL
2396 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2397 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2398 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2399 locale
2400 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2401 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2402 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2403 cases
2404 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2405 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2406 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2407 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2408 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2409 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2410 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2411 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2412 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2413 "Bangla"
2414 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2415 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2416 width Latin characters
2417 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2418 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2419 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2420 letters
2421 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2422 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2423 (CVE-2009-5064)
2424 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2425 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2426 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2427 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2428 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2429 if malloc succeeded
2430 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2431 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2432 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2433 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2434 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2435 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2436 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2437 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2438 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2439 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2440 U+309A
2441 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2442 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2443 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2444 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2445 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2446 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2447 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2448 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2449 for Nicaragua
2450 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2451 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2452 are not found.
2453 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2454 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2455 access
2456 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2457 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2458 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2459 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2460 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2461 __regcall calling convention
2462 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2463 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2464 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2465 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2466 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2467 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2468 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2469 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2470 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2471 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2472 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2473 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2474 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2475 locale
2476 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2477 protector=all
2478 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2479 wcwidth
2480 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2481 consistency check failures
2482 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2483 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2484 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2485 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2486 PIE
2487 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2488 locales
2489 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2490 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2491 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2492 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2493 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2494 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2495 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2496 on memory allocation failure
2497 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2498 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2499 the suspect)
2500 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2501 default (i386)
2502 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2503 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2504 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2505 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2506 instead of EAI_NODATA
2507 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2508 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2509 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2510 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2511 implementation
2512 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2513 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2514 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2515 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2516 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2517 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2518 allocation in syscall loops)
2519 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2520 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2521 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2522 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2523 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2524 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2525 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2526 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2527 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2528 occur with -O3
2529 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2530 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2531 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2532 amounts)
2533 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2534 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2535 niu_NZ
2536 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2537 checks
2538 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2539 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2540 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2541 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2542 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2543 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2544 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2545 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2546 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2547 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2548 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2549 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2550 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2551 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2552 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2553 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2554 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2555 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2556 parsing after OOM
2557 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2558 object
2559 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2560 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2561 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
2562 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2563 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2564 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 2565 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
2566 ppc64le
2567 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2568 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2569 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2570 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2571 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2572 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2573 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2574 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2575 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2576 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2577 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2578 math_force_eval
2579 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2580 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2581 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2582 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2583 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2584 the svid compat wrapper
2585 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2586 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2587 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2588 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2589 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2590 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2591 --verbose.
2592 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2593 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2594 to 2.26
2595 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2596 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2597 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2598 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2599 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2600 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2601 (CVE-2017-15804)
2602 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2603 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2604 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2605 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2606 failure."
2607 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2608 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2609 -m32
2610 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2611 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2612 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2613 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2614 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2615 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2616 inside the ASCII printable range
2617 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2618 -mlong-double-64
2619 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2620 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2621 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2622 Internet
2623 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2624 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2625 backslash
2626 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2627 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2628 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2629 heaps in an arena
2630 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2631 networking interface
2632 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2633 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2634 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2635 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2636 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2637 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2638 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2639 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2640 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2641 order
2642 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2643 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2644 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2645 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2646 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2647 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2648 same as for Croatian
2649 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2650 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2651 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2652 for initial thread"
2653 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2654 SC_SSIZE_MAX
2655 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2656 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2657 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2658 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2659 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2660 (CVE-2017-1000408)
2661 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2662 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2663 modified in case of success
2664 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2665 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2666 success
2667 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2668 stack-protector=all
2669 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2670 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2671 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2672 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2673 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2674 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2675 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2676 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2677 adding it on top
2678 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2679 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2680 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2681 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2682 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2683 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2684 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2685 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2686 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2687 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2688 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2689 elision and tunables
2690 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2691 "invalid" exception
2692 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2693 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2694 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2695 exception
2696 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2697 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2698 power4
2699 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2700 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2701 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2702 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2703 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2704 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2705 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2706 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2707 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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2710Version 2.26
2711
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2712Major new features:
2713
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2714* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2715 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2716 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2717 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2718 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2719 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2720 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2721
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2722* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2723 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 2724 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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2725 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2726 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2727 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2728 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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2730* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2731 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2732 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 2733
2b2ccd0c 2734* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 2735
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2736 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2737 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2738 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 2739
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2740 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2741 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2742 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2743 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2744 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 2745
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2746 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2747 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2748 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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2750* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2751 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 2752
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2753* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2754 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2755 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2756 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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2758* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2759 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2760 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2761 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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2763* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2764 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2765 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2766 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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2768* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2769 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2770 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 2771
2b2ccd0c 2772* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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2773 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2774 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2775 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 2776
2b2ccd0c 2777 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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2778 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2779 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2780 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2781 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2782
2783 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2784 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2785 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2786 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2787 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2788 interfaces should be used instead.
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2790Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2791
2792* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2793 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2794 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2795 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2796 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2797 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2798 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2799 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2800
2801* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2802 removed.
2803
2804* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 2805 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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2806 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2807 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2808
2809* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2810 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2811 default.
2812
2813 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2814 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2815 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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2816 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2817 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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2818
2819 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2820 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2821 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2822 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2823
2824* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2825 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2826 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2827 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2828
2829* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2830 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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2832* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2833 exported by accident.
2834
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2835* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2836 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2837 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2838
2839* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2840 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2841 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2842 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2843
2844* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2845
2846* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2847
2848* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2849 free instead.
2850
2851* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2852 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2853
2854* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2855 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2856
2857* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2858 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2859 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2860 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2861 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2862 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2863 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2864 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2865
2866* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2867 synced with the kernel:
2868
2869 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2870 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2871
2872 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2873 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2874 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2875
2876 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2877 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2878
2879Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2880
2881* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2882 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2883 x86-32 and x86-64.)
2884
7e368000 2885* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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2887* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2888 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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2889
2890 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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2891 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2892 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2893 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 2894 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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2896Security related changes:
2897
e14a2772 2898* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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2899 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2900
2901* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2902 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2903
2904* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2905 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2906 (CVE-2010-3192).
2907
2908* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2909 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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2911The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2912
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2913 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2914 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2915 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2916 fields
2917 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2918 (CVE-2010-3192)
2919 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2920 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2921 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2922 ld.bfd is available
2923 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2924 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2925 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2926 x86 and other generic code
2927 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2928 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2929 incorrect
2930 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2931 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2932 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2933 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2934 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2935 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2936 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2937 resolver
2938 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2939 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2940 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2941 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2942 chillu characters
2943 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2944 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2945 receiving data
2946 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2947 whitespace
2948 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2949 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2950 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2951 for Peru
2952 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2953 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2954 failures consistently
2955 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2956 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2957 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2958 frame-pointer on i386
2959 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2960 register
2961 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2962 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2963 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2964 generic c code is used
2965 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2966 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2967 around 4000
2968 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2969 (CVE-2017-12133)
2970 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2971 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2972 with -lieee
2973 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2974 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2975 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2976 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2977 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2978 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2979 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2980 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2981 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2982 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2983 remove()
2984 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2985 checked for errors.
2986 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2987 new posix_spawn implementation
2988 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2989 leads to lower CPU frequency
2990 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2991 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2992 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2993 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2994 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2995 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2996 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2997 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2998 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2999 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3000 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3001 not support gethostbyname4_r
3002 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3003 switching
3004 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3005 arenas
3006 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3007 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3008 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3009 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3010 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3011 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3012 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3013 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3014 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3015 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3016 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3017 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3018 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3019 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3020 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3021 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3022 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3023 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3024 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3025 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3026 retry value
3027 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3028 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3029 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3030 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3031 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3032 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3033 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3034 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3035 [21537] libc:
3036 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3037 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3038 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3039 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3040 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3041 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3042 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3043 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3044 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3045 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3046 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3047 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3048 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3049 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3050 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3051 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3052 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3053 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3054 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3055 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3056 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3057 issue on x86-64
3058 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3059 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3060 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3061 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3062 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3063 construction
3064 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3065 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3066 between_2_3
3067 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3068 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3069 conditions
3070 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3071 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3072 Hindi Locale
3073 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3074 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3075 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3076 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3077 locale
3078 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3079 leading to relocation crash
3080 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3081 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3082 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3083 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3084 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3085 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3086 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3087 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3088 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3089 locale
3090 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3091 locale
3092 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3093 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3094 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3095 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3096 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3097 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3098 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3099 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3100 strings
3101 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3102 protector=all
3103 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3104 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
3105 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3106 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3107 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3108 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3109 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3110 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3111 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3112 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3113 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3114 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3115 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3116 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3117 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3118 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3119 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3120 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3121 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3122 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3123 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3124 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3125 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3126 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3127 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3128 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3129 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3130 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3131 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3132 with unicode 9.0
3133 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3134 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3135 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3136 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3137 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 3138
d5b396c1 3139\f
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3140Version 2.25
3141
48789000
JM
3142* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3143 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3144 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3145 Library.
e720d3d9 3146
bf91be88
JM
3147* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3148 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 3149 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
bf91be88
JM
3150 the GNU C Library.
3151
412cb261
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3152* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3153 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3154 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3155 the GNU C Library.
3156
c0307377
ZW
3157* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3158 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3159 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3160 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3161 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3162 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3163 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3164 will not.
3165
3166 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3167 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3168 many years.
3169
dbab6577
ZW
3170* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3171 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3172 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3173
3174 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3175 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3176 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3177 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3178 problem.
3179
ec94343f 3180* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
c0b43536
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3181 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3182 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 3183
a292f45a
JM
3184* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3185 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
5b17fd0d
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3186 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3187 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3188 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3189 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3190 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3191 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3192 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3193 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3194 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3195 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 3196
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3197* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3198
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3199 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3200
423c2b9d
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3201 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3202 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3203 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 3204
55a38f82
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3205 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3206 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3207
525f8039
JM
3208 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3209 fminmagf, fminmagl.
3210
1e7c8fcc
JM
3211 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3212
29cb9293 3213 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 3214
cc6a8d74
JM
3215 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3216 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 3217
eaf5ad0b
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3218 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3219
eb3c12c7 3220 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 3221 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 3222
f3b904d9
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3223* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3224 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3225
cecbc796
NA
3226* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3227 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3228 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3229
ea1bd74d
ZW
3230* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3231 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3232 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3233 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3234 effects of the memory clear).
3235
b0216d3e
JM
3236* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3237 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3238 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3239 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3240
f3b904d9
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3241* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3242 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3243 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3244 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3245 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3246 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 3247
92dcaa3e
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3248* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3249 have been added.
3250
705a79f8
FW
3251* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3252 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3253 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3254 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3255 as large as several megabytes.
3256
4d728087
FW
3257* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3258 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3259 been removed.
3260
e863cce5
FW
3261* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3262 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3263 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3264 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3265 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3266 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3267 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3268
7ec47a85
FW
3269* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3270 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3271 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3272 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3273
099191b1 3274* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
FW
3275 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3276 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3277 Internet.
3278
bbe989ee
FW
3279* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3280 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3281 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 3282
b76e0659
FW
3283* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3284 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3285 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3286 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3287
3a2a1d2c
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3288* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3289 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3290 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3291 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3292 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3293
be728303
FW
3294* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3295 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3296 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3297 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3298 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3299
6815a33d
FW
3300* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3301 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3302 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3303 did not reflect that.
3304
022dfdce
SL
3305* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3306 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3307 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3308 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3309 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3310 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3311 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3312 'gcc/config.gcc'.
3313
23b5cae1
MG
3314* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3315 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3316 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3317 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3318
7715d3ab
SP
3319* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3320 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3321 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3322 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3323
0cea3587
SP
3324* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3325 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3326 guarantees.
3327
3328* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3329 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3330 make state changes.
3331
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3332Security related changes:
3333
fc82b0a2 3334* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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FW
3335 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3336 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3337 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 3338 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 3339
fc82b0a2
FW
3340* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3341 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3342 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3343 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3344 (CVE-2015-5180)
3345
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3346The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3347
fdb724f9 3348 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
3349 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3350 protector-all
3351 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3352 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3353 before it started waiting
3354 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3355 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3356 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3357 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3358 wrong type
3359 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3360 library linked with pthread
3361 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3362 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3363 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3364 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3365 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3366 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3367 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3368 when it shouldnt
3369 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3370 not
3371 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3372 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3373 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3374 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3375 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3376 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3377 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3378 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3379 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3380 termination
3381 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3382 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3383 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3384 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3385 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3386 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3387 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3388 causes a segmentation fault
3389 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3390 linking
3391 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3392 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3393 uninitialized GOT
3394 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3395 versions
3396 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3397 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3398 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3399 is always true.
3400 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3401 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3402 modes
3403 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3404 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3405 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3406 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3407 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3408 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3409 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3410 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3411 libpthread.a
3412 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3413 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3414 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3415 _res_hconf
3416 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3417 information.
3418 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3419 penalty
3420 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3421 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3422 cause transition penalty
3423 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3424 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3425 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3426 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3427 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3428 mcount.oS)
3429 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3430 Checking
3431 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3432 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3433 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3434 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3435 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3436 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3437 multi-arch
3438 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3439 (RES_USEBSTRING)
3440 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3441 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3442 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3443 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3444 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3445 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3446 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3447 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3448 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3449 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3450 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3451 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3452 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3453 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3454 glibc
3455 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3456 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3457 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3458 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3459 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3460 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3461 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3462 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3463 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3464 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3465 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3466 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3467 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3468 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3469 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3470 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3471 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3472 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3473 RES_USE_INET6
3474 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3475 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3476 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3477 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3478 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3479 wrong condition
3480 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3481 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3482 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3483 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3484 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3485 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3486 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3487 clang
3488 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3489 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3490 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3491 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3492 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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3494Version 2.24
3495
5b4ecd3f
JM
3496* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3497 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3498 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3499 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3500 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3501 architectures.
3502
b6ebba70
MF
3503* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3504 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3505 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 3506
7584a3f9
FW
3507* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3508 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3509
b49ab5f4
FW
3510* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3511 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3512 instead of “union wait”.
3513
ced8f893
SG
3514* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3515 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3516 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3517 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3518 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3519 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3520 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3521
2ba3cfa1
FW
3522* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3523 API.
3524
b7a9b7b0
MF
3525* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3526 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3527 drop it.
6a54bcda 3528
41a359e2
RS
3529* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3530 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3531 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3532 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3533 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3534 extensions.
3535
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3536Security related changes:
3537
f5b3338d
FW
3538* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3539 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3540 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3541
4ab2ab03
FW
3542* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3543 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3544 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3545 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 3546
5171f307
FW
3547* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3548 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3549 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3550
bc779a1a
FW
3551* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3552 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3553 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3554
fab38231
FW
3555* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3556 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3557 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3558 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3559
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3560The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3561
3c4f81ec
CD
3562 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3563 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3564 of MS-DOS.
3565 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3566 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3567 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3568 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3569 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3570 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3571 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3572 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3573 CLDR data
3574 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3575 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3576 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3577 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3578 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3579 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3580 romanisation
3581 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3582 and +/-
3583 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3584 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3585 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3586 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3587 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3588 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3589 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3590 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3591 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3592 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3593 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3594 all locales
3595 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3596 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3597 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3598 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3599 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3600 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3601 execute
3602 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3603 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3604 -Wsystem-headers
3605 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3606 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3607 Romanian locale data
3608 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3609 symbol
3610 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3611 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3612 language
3613 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3614 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3615 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3616 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3617 machine
3618 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3619 description
3620 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3621 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3622 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3623 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3624 when using RTLD_NEXT
3625 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3626 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3627 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3628 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3629 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3630 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3631 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3632 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3633 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3634 Excavator core
3635 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3636 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3637 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3638 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3639 double range
3640 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3641 part zero incorrect
3642 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3643 equality tests
3644 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3645 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3646 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3647 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3648 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3649 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3650 glibc-2.22
3651 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3652 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3653 'tst-numeric.c'
3654 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3655 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3656 low part
3657 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3658 result
3659 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3660 unaligned stack
3661 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3662 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3663 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3664 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3665 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3666 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3667 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3668 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3669 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3670 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3671 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3672 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3673 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3674 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3675 modes
3676 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3677 server addresses
3678 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3679 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3680 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3681 response to getaddrinfo
3682 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3683 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3684 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3685 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3686 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3687 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3688 sometimes incorrect
3689 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3690 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3691 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3692 record types
3693 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3694 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3695 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3696 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3697 (CVE-2016-3075)
3698 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3699 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3700 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3701 resolving symbols
3702 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3703 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3704 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3705 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3706 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3707 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3708 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3709 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3710 gethosts
3711 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3712 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3713 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3714 (CVE-2016-3706)
3715 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3716 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3717 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3718 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3719 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3720 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3721 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3722 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3723 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3724 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3725 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3726 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3727 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3728 executable
3729 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3730 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3731 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3732 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3733 XPG3
3734 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3735 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3736 (CVE-2016-4429)
3737 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3738 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3739 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3740 AS not supporting AVX512
3741 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3742 sNaN argument
3743 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3744 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3745 argument
3746 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3747 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3748 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3749 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3750 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3751 eax=0x80000001
3752 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3753 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3754 subnormals
3755 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3756 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3757 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3758 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3759 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3760 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3761 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3762 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3763 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3764 input
3765 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3766 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3767 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3768 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3769 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3770 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3771 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3772 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3773 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3774 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3775 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3776 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3777 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3778 double rounding
3779 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3780 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3781 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3782 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3783 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3784 (Only arm/linux)
3785 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3786 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3787 fallbacks
3788 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3789 "invalid" exceptions
3790 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3791 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3792 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3793 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3794 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3795 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3796 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3797 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3798 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 3799\f
aeb47bbc
DM
3800Version 2.23
3801
23256f5e
MF
3802* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3803 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3804 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3805 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3806 89, 16061, and 18568.
3807
2359035a
FW
3808* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3809 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3810 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3811 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3812 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3813 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3814 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3815
8b7b7f75
MW
3816* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3817 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3818 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3819
2eecc8af
FW
3820* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3821 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3822 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3823 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3824 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3825 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3826 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3827
a62719ba
FW
3828* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3829 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3830 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3831 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3832 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 3833 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
3834 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3835 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 3836
bc148ca1
MF
3837* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3838 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3839 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3840 independent of the GNU C Library.
3841
1c70b6f1
ZW
3842* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3843 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 3844
eed3e1eb
JM
3845* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3846 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3847 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3848 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3849 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3850 Linux kernel.
3851
1efad39b
SL
3852* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3853 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 3854
d709042a
JM
3855* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3856 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3857 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3858 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3859 defining their own copy.
3860
b08b4218
JM
3861* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3862 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3863 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 3864
8f5e8b01
JM
3865Security related changes:
3866
6400ae6e
FW
3867* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3868 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3869
3870* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3871 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3872 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3873 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3874 (CVE-2015-8777)
3875
3876* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3877 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3878
3879* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3880 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3881
8f5e8b01
JM
3882* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3883 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 3884 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 3885
e9db92d3
CD
3886* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3887 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3888 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3889 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3890 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3891 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3892 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3893 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3894 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3895 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3896 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3897 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3898 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3899
ad372e29 3900The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 3901
ad372e29
AZ
3902 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3903 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3904 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3905 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3906 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3907 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3908 use `mkstemp'
3909 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3910 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3911 overflow/underflow errors
3912 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3913 overflow/underflow
3914 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3915 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3916 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3917 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3918 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3919 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3920 are not contiguous
3921 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3922 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3923 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3924 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3925 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3926 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3927 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3928 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3929 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3930 all exceptions
3931 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3932 arguments
3933 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3934 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3935 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3936 should include
3937 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3938 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3939 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3940 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3941 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3942 GNU/Linux
3943 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3944 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3945 arguments
3946 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3947 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3948 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3949 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3950 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3951 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3952 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3953 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3954 rounding results
3955 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3956 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3957 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3958 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3959 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3960 fails
3961 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3962 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3963 block boundary
3964 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3965 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3966 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3967 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3968 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3969 4.7?
3970 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3971 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3972 (related to lock elision)
3973 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3974 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3975 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3976 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3977 (CVE-2015-8779)
3978 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3979 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3980 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3981 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3982 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3983 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3984 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3985 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3986 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3987 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3988 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3989 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3990 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3991 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3992 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3993 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3994 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3995 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3996 contains a vector instruction exception.
3997 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3998 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3999 locales
4000 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4001 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4002 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4003 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4004 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4005 missing break ?
4006 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4007 32bit processes
4008 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4009 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4010 infinity
4011 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4012 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4013 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4014 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4015 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4016 be forced unloaded
4017 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4018 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4019 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4020 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4021 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4022 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4023 statically too large
4024 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4025 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4026 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4027 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4028 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4029 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4030 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4031 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4032 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4033 FUTEX_SHARED
4034 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4035 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4036 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4037 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4038 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4039 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4040 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4041 opendir()
4042 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4043 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4044 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4045 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4046 signgam
4047 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4048 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4049 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4050 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4051 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4052 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4053 dependencies
4054 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4055 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4056 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4057 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4058 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4059 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4060 (CVE-2015-8776)
4061 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4062 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4063 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4064 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4065 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4066 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4067 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4068 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4069 contention
4070 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4071 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4072 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4073 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4074 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4075 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4076 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4077 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4078 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4079 rounding modes
4080 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4081 ILP32
4082 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4083 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4084 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4085 threshold
4086 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4087 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4088 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4089 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4090 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4091 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4092 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4093 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4094 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4095 pthread_setaffinity_np
4096 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4097 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4098 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4099 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4100 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4101 prelink
4102 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4103 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4104 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4105 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4106 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4107 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4108 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4109 bits/mathcalls.h
4110 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4111 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4112 for C99-based standards
4113 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4114 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4115 math-only
4116 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4117 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4118 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4119 disabled
4120 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4121 "inexact" exceptions
4122 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4123 arguments
4124 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4125 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4126 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4127 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4128 rules
4129 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4130 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4131 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4132 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4133 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4134 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4135 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4136 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4137 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4138 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4139 from 32bit
4140 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4141 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4142 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4143 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4144 subnormals
4145 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4146 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4147 error on 32-bit architectures
4148 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4149 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4150 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4151 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4152 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4153 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4154 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4155 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4156 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4157 -Os
4158 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4159 CPU's.
4160 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4161 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4162 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4163 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4164 architectures
4165 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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1c7a4a51
JM
4167Version 2.22
4168
4169* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4170
3df5cd98 4171 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
4172 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4173 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4174 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4175 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4176 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4177 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4178 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4179 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4180 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4181 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4182 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4183 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4184 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4185 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4186 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4187 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4188 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
4189 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4190 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 4191
f7fba805
SL
4192* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4193 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4194
2959eda9
AS
4195* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4196 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4197 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4198 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4199 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4200 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 4201
42261ad7
FW
4202* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4203 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4204 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4205 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4206 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4207
afcd9480
AM
4208* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4209 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4210 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4211
4a4839c9
AO
4212* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4213 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4214 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4215 17998.
4216
b13b96ca
AS
4217* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4218 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4219 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
4220
4221* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
4222 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4223 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
4224 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4225 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
4226 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4227 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 4228 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
4229
4230* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4231 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4232 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4233 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
4234
4235* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4236 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4237 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
4238
4239* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4240 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
4241
4242* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4243 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4244 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4245
a03ba363 4246 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
4247 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4248 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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58b930ae
SP
4250Version 2.21
4251
4252* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4253
042e1521 4254 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
4255 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4256 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4257 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4258 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4259 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4260 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4261 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4262 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4263 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4264 17892.
4265
46d54873
FW
4266* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4267 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4268 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4269 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4270 intended.
042e1521
CD
4271
4272* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4273 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4274 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4275 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4276 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4277 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 4278
522e6ee3
CLT
4279* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4280
d3b00f46
AZ
4281* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4282 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 4283 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 4284
8d2c0a59
AZ
4285* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4286 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4287 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4288 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4289 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4290 effects being visible outside transactions.
4291
dc400d7b
RE
4292* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4293 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 4294
0f9dfe04
L
4295* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4296
a39208bd
CD
4297* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4298 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 4299 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
4300 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4301 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 4302
a5357b7c
JL
4303* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4304 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4305
e54db0ea
AM
4306* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4307 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4308 format.
11e3417a 4309
4863355a
JM
4310* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4311 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4312 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4313
a4ecc9eb
JM
4314* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4315 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4316
0d560bbf 4317* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
4318
4319* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4320 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4321 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4322 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
4323
4324* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4325 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
4326
4327* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4328 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4329 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4330 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4331 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4332 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4333 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4334 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4335 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4336 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4337 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4338 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4339 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4340
4341 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4342 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4343 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4344 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4345 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 4346\f
d5b396c1
AM
4347Version 2.20
4348
4349* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4350
6a9350c8
JM
4351 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4352 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4353 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4354 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4355 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4356 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4357 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4358 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4359 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4360 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4361 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4362 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4363 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4364 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4365 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 4366
95ee7fb1
SL
4367* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4368 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4369 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4370 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4371 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 4372 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
4373 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4374 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4375 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4376 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4377
0961f7e1
JL
4378* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4379 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4380 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4381 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4382 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 4383
f940b965
RE
4384* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4385
d0f5b3f8
JM
4386* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4387 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4388
d6fe5e58
JM
4389* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4390 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4391 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4392 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4393 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4394 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4395
464263cc
JM
4396* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4397 from ports.
c941736c
JM
4398
4399* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4400 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4401 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4402 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4403 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4404 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4405 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
4406
4407* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
4408
4409* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4410 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4411 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4412 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4413 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4414 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4415 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
4416
4417* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4418 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4419 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4420 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4421 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
4422
4423* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4424 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4425 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
4426
4427* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4428 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4429 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4430 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
4431
4432* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4433 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4434 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4435 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4436 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4437 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4438 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4439 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
4440
4441* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4442 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4443 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4444 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4445 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4446 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4447 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4448 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4449 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
4450
4451* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4452 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4453 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4454 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4455 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 4456 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
4457
4458* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4459 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4460 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4461 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
4462\f
4463Version 2.19
4464
4465* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4466
fd2f9486
JM
4467 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4468 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4469 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4470 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4471 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4472 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4473 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4474 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4475 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4476 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
4477 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4478 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4479 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4480 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4481 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
4482 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4483 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4484 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 4485
11520a57
CD
4486* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4487 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4488
2fe16229
CD
4489* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4490 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4491 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
4492 extension which uses __block.
4493
303e567a
SP
4494* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4495 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4496 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4497 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4498 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4499
141f3a77
SP
4500* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4501 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4502 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4503 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4504 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
4505
4506* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4507 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4508 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4509 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4510 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
4511
4512* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4513 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4514 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4515
ba0d798c
WN
4516* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4517 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4518 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4519 #15856, #15857).
4520
7cbcdb36
SP
4521* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4522 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4523
82bab04b 4524* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 4525 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 4526
c5f840fd
MB
4527* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4528
3e181dda
CD
4529* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4530 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 4531
3e181dda 4532* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 4533
8a05c252
CL
4534* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4535
6055173a
JM
4536* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4537 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4538 for which the C library was built.
4539
b125d3e5
JM
4540* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4541 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4542 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4543 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4544 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4545 in the following circumstances:
4546
4547 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4548
4549 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4550 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4551
d4f66d37
JM
4552* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4553 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4554
3e181dda
CD
4555* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4556 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 4557
ffb89e53
AO
4558* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4559
5d29ccce
SP
4560* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4561 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4562
8b7d57cd 4563* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
4564
4565* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 4566
fd712ef3 4567* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 4568
c688b419
JM
4569* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4570 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4571 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4572 disable some of those declarations.
4573
7011c262 4574* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
4575 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4576 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
4577
4578* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4579 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
4580
4581* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4582 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4583 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4584 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4585 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4586 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4587 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4588 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4589 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4590 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4591 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4592 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4593 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
4594\f
4595Version 2.18
4596
4597* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4598
17db6e8d 4599 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
4600 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4601 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
4602 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4603 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4604 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4605 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4606 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4607 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4608 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4609 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4610 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4611 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4612 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
4613
4614* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4615 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4616 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4617 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4618 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4619 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 4620
5b535ac4
AS
4621* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4622 #15078).
4623
1cef1b19
AS
4624* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4625 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 4626
55e4107b
SP
4627* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4628 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4629 destructor calls to glibc.
4630
e5c74c63
SP
4631* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4632 output.
4633
4634* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4635 non-x86 architectures.
4636
e7521973
JM
4637* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4638
4639* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4640
4641* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4642 Richard Henderson.
4643
4644* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4645
4646* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4647 Richard Henderson.
4648
4649* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4650 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4651
8cfdb7e0
SP
4652* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4653
57267616
TS
4654* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4655 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 4656
c204ab28
SP
4657* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4658 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 4659
0748546f
PE
4660* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4661 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4662 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4663
61dd6208
SP
4664* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4665 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4666 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
4667
4668* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4669 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4670 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4671 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4672 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
4673
4674* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4675 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4676
4677* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
4678\f
4679Version 2.17
4680
4681* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4682
80ceeaee 4683 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
4684 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4685 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4686 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4687 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4688 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4689 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4690 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4691 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4692 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4693 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4694 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4695 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4696 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4697 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 4698
95b4f1b6
SE
4699* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4700
14bc93a9
JL
4701* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4702 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 4703
b54eb3cb
JM
4704* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4705 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4706
7e2bd01f
MS
4707* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4708
08f43f9b
AK
4709* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4710 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4711 zEnterprise z196.
4712 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4713
84b3fd84
FW
4714* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4715 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4716 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4717
815e6fa3
GB
4718* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4719 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4720
400726de
MK
4721* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4722 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4723
7aab07e4 4724* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 4725 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 4726
15d0da8c
WS
4727* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4728 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4729
3cc3ef96
RM
4730* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4731 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
4732 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4733 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 4734
b54eb3cb
JM
4735* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4736 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4737
85429b1a 4738* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 4739 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
4740 default.
4741
b54eb3cb
JM
4742* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4743 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4744 information in --help and --version output.
4745
050af9c4
SP
4746* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4747 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4748 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4749
89a3ad0b
AO
4750* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4751 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4752 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4753 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4754 when the mode is enabled.
4755
6e6249d0
RM
4756* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4757 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4758 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4759 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4760 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4761 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4762 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 4763
d9286582
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4764* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4765 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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4767Version 2.16
4768
4769* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4770
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4771 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4772 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4773 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4774 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4775 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4776 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4777 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4778 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4779 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4780 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4781 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4782 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4783 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4784 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4785 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4786 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4787 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4788 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4789 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4790 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4791 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4792 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4793 14277, 14278.
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a086b4d6
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4795* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4796 configuring glibc with:
4797 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 4798 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
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4799 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4800
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4801* ISO C11 support:
4802
4803 + define static_assert
4804
4805 + do not declare gets
4806
4807 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4808
4809 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4810 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4811 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4812 implementation.
8d44e150 4813
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4815
4816 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 4817
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4818 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4819
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4820 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4821
9dc4e1fb 4822* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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4823
4824* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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4825
4826* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4827 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
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4828
4829* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4830 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4831
4832* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4833 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4834 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4835 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4836 existing applications.
ffb7875d 4837
21708942 4838* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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4839 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4840 before 2.6.
83678f76 4841
edb00e4d
RH
4842* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4843 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4844 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4845
83678f76 4846* New locales: mag_IN
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4847
4848* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4849 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4850 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4851 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4852 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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4853
4854* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4855
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4856* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4857 and Will Schmidt.
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4858
4859* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4860
4861* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4862 without a previously built glibc.
4863
4864* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4865 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4866
4867* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4868 now supported for ARM processors.
4869
4870* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4871 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4872 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4873
4874* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4875
4876* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4877 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4878 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4879 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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4880
4881* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4882 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4883 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4884 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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4885
4886* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4887 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4888 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4889 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4890 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4891
4892* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4893 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4894 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4895 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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e80fab37 4897Version 2.15
11988f8f 4898
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4899* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4900
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4901 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4902 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4903 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4904 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4905 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4906 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4907 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 4908
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4909* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4910 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4911
4912* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4913 and support for initgroups lookups.
4914 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4915
4916* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4917 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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4918
4919* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4920 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 4921
fc2ee42a
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4922* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4923 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 4924 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 4925
d42964a0 4926* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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4927 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4928
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4929* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4930 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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4931 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4932
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4933* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4934 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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4935
4936* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4937 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4938
4939* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4940 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
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4941
4942* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4943 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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4944
4945* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4946 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4947
4948* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4949 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4950
4951* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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4952
4953* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4954 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 4955
f0b264f1
AZ
4956* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4957 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 4958
6b64057b 4959* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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9f94d2ea 4962
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4963* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4964
553149f6 4965 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 4966 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 4967 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 4968 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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4969 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4970 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4971 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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4972 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4973 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 4974 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 4975
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4976* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4977 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4978 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 4979 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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4980
4981 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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4982 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4983 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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4984 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4985
c6489db3 4986* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 4987 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 4988
72d1dddb 4989* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 4990 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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4991
4992* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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4993
4994* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4995 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4996
4997* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4998 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4999 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5000 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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5002Version 2.13
5003
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5004* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5005
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5006 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5007 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5008 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5009 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5010 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 5011
10b3bedc 5012* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 5013
ac2b484c 5014* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 5015
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5016* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5017 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 5018 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5020Version 2.12
5021
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5022* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5023
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5024 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5025 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5026 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5027 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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5028 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5029 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5030 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 5031 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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5032
5033* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 5034
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5035* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5036
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5037* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5038
5039* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5040 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5041 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5042
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5043* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5044 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5045 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5046 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5047 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5048
d36b9613 5049* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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5050\f
5051Version 2.11
5052
d36b9613
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5053* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5054
5055 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5056 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5057 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5058 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5059 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5060 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5061
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5062* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5063 mkostemps64
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5064 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5065
24ab9c76 5066* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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5067 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5068
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5069* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5070 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5071
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5072* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5073
0122f28e 5074* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 5075 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 5076 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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5077 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5078
9d36a6c4 5079 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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5080 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5081
9d36a6c4
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5082* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5083 strstr, strcasestr.
5084 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5085
5086* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5087 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5088
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5089* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5090 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5091
5092* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5093 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5094
5095* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5096 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5097 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5098 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5099 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5100 necessity is every process again.
5101 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5102
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5103* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5104 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5105
5106* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5107 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5108
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5109* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5110 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5111 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5112
9dd5b8a1 5113* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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5114\f
5115Version 2.10
5116
d36b9613
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5117* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5118
5119 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5120 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5121 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5122 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5123 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5124
bb066545 5125* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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5126 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5127
425ce2ed 5128* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 5129 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 5130
1fdd89a7 5131* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 5132 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
1fdd89a7 5133
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5134* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5135 now in POSIX.
77db439e 5136
1f04d005 5137* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 5138 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 5139
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5140* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5141 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5142
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5143* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5144 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5145
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5146* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5147 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5148
5149* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5150 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5151 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5152
735be400 5153* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 5154
84aa52d7 5155* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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5156 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5157
5158* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5159 and extend existing format specifiers.
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5160 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5161
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5162* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5163 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5164
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5165* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5166 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5167 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5168 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5169 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5170 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5172Version 2.9
5173
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5174* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5175
597d0267
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5176 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5177 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5178 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5179 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5180 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
d36b9613 5181
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5183 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5184
5185* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5186 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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5187
5188* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5189 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5190
5191* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5192 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5193 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5194
5195* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5196 Implemented by Eric Blake.
e038616f 5197
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5199
5200* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 5201 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5203* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5204 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5205 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5206 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5207
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5208* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5209 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5211* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5212 Sinhala)
48b22986 5213 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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5215* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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5218
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5219* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5220
5221 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5222 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5223 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5224 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5225 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5226 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5227 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5228
e038616f 5229* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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77751669 5231* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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5233* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5234 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5235
5236* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5237
5238* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5239 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5240
5241* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5242 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5243
5244* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5245 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5246 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5247
5248* Faster memset for x86-64.
5249 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5250
5251* Faster memcpy on x86.
5252 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5253
5254* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5255 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5257* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 5258 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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5260Version 2.7
5261
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5262* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5263
5264 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5265 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5266 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5267 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5268 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5269
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5270* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5271 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5272
5273* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5274
5275* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5276 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5277 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5278
5279* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5280 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5281
28919a77 5282* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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5283 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5284
5285* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5286
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5287* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5288 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5289
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5290* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5291 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5292
5293* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5294 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5295
5296* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5297
5298* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5299 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5301* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5302 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5303 yo_NG.
5304
5305+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5306 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5311
5312 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5313 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5314 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5315 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5316 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5317 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5318 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5319 4702, 4858
5320
bce20b9a 5321* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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5323* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5324
b21fa963 5325* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5328
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5329* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5330
5331 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5332 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5333 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5334 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5335 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5336 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5337 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5338 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5339 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5340
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5342 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5343 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5345* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5346 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5347
871b9158 5348* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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5349
5350* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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5352* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5353 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5354 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 5355 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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5356 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5357
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5359 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5360 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5361 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5362
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5363* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5364 Ulrich Drepper.
5365
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5366* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5367
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5368* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5369 Ulrich Drepper.
5370
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5371* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5372
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5373* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5374 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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5376Version 2.4
5377
5378* More overflow detection functions.
5379
5380* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5381 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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5383 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5384 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5385 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5386 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5387 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5388 by Masahide Washizawa.
5389
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5390* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5391 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5392
5393* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5394 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5395 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5396 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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5398* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5399 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5400
5401* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5402
5403* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5404 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5405 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5406
5407* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5408 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5409
5410* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5411 for compatibility with some other systems.
5412
5413* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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5415Version 2.3.6
5416
5417* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5418
5419 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5420 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5421 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5422 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5423 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5424 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5425
5a82c748 5426 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5427
5428* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5429
5430* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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5432Version 2.3.5
5433
5434* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5435
5436 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5437 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5438 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5439 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5440
5a82c748 5441 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5443Version 2.3.4
5444
5445* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5446 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5447
5448* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5449 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5450 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5451
5452* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5453 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5454
0325dd20 5455* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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5456 efficiently.
5457 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5458
5459* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5460 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5461 handling data.
5462
5463* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5464 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 5465 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5466
5467* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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5468 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5469
5470* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5471 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5472 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5473 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5474
5475* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5476 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5477 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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5478 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5479
5480* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5481 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5482 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5483 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5484 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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5486Version 2.3.3
5487
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5488* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5489 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5490
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5491* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5492 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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5495 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5496
5497* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5498 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5500* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5501 by Roland McGrath.
5502
c5af724c 5503* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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5504 and Ulrich Drepper.
5505
5506* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5507 RFC 3484.
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5509Version 2.3.2
5510
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5511* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5512 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5513 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5514 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5515 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5516 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5517 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5518 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5519 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5520
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5521* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5522 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5523 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5524
5525* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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5526
5527* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5528 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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5530* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5531 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5532
52a16e58 5533* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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5535* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5536 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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5537
5538* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5539 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5540 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5541 of weak definition in ld.so.
5542
5543* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5544 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5545
5546* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5547 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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5551* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5552 charsets.
5553
5554* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5555 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 5557* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 5558 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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5560* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5561 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 5562
bb0ec5bd 5563* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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5564 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5565 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5567* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5568 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 5569
bb0ec5bd 5570* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 5571 implementation of regex.
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5572
5573* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5574 Unicode 3.2.
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5576* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5577 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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5579* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5580 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5581 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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5582
5583* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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5585
5586* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5587 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5588 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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5589
5590* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5591 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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5592
5593* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5594 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5595 and Ulrich Drepper.
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5597* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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5599Version 2.2.6
5600
5601* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5602 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5603
5604* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5605 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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5607Version 2.2.5
5608
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5609* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5610 128-bit long double format.
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5612* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5613 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 5614
ad2e4f18 5615* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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5617* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5618
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5619* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5620 as well.
5621
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5622* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5623 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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5624
5625* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
7d0c5823 5626\f
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5627Version 2.2.4
5628
2995f70e 5629* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 5630 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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5631
5632* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5633 support Unicode 3.1.
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5634
5635* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5636 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 5637
69d5f925 5638* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 5639
69d5f925 5640* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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5641 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5642 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5643
5644* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5645 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5646
5647* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5648 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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5649
5650* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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5652Version 2.2.3
5653
1746f2b0 5654* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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5655 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5656 in float, double, and long double format.
5657
f128331c 5658* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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5659 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5660 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 5661
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5662* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5663 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5664 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5665 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5666
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5667* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5668 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5669 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5670
5671* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5672 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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5673
5674* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5675 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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5676
5677* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5678 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5679 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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5680
5681* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5682 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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5683
5684* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5685 of functions for Linux/x86.
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5686
5687* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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5689Version 2.2.2
5690
464d97ec 5691* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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5692 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5693 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5694 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5695 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5696 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5697 other headers.
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5698
5699* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5700 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5701
5702* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5703 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5704 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5705 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5706
5707* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5708 locales. While
5709
5710 locale -a
5711
5712 only lists the names of the supported locales
5713
5714 locale -a --verbose
5715
5716 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5717 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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5719Version 2.2.1
5720
5721* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5722 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5723 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5724 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5725 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5726
5727 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5728
5729 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5730
5731 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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5732
5733* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5734 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5735 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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5736
5737* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5738 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5739
5740* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5741 changed from the default "C" locale.
5742
5743* The usual bug fixes.
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5745Version 2.2
5746
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5747* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5748 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5749 is in progress.
5750
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5751* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5752
793bd4d9 5753* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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5755 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5756 obviously requires a database library being available.
5757
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5758* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5759
abbffdf9 5760* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 5761
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5762* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5763 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5764
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5765* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5766
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5767* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5768 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5769 and Mark Kettenis.
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5770
5771 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5772 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5773 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 5774
a00c3ca9 5775 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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5776 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5777
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5778* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5779 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5780 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5781
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5782* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5783 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5784 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5785 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5786
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5787 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5788 structures for the wide character tables.
5789
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5790* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5791
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5792* The utmp daemon has been removed.
5793
5794* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5795
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5796* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5797 and Yutaka Niibe.
5798
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5799* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5800
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5801* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5802
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5803* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5804
5805* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5806
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5807* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5808
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5809* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5810 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5811 implemented for Linux.
5812
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5813* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5814 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5815 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5816 versions.
5817
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5818* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5819 Masahide Washizawa.
5820
8f3f1e09 5821* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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5823Version 2.1.3
5824
5825* bug fixes
5826
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5827\f
5828Version 2.1.2
5829
5830* bug fixes
5831
28f540f4 5832\f
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5833Version 2.1.1
5834
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5835* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5836
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5837* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5838
407d26b7 5839* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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5840
5841* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5842
407d26b7 5843* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 5844
407d26b7 5845* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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5846
5847* Update timezone data files.
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5849* lots of charmaps corrections
5850
5851* some new locale definitions and charmaps
5852
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5854Version 2.1
5855
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5856* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5857 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5858 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5859 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5860 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5861 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5862
c84142e8 5863* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 5864 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 5865
1fb05e3d 5866* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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5867 symbol level.
5868
5869* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5870 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 5871
cbdee279 5872* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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5873
5874* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 5875 numbers.
377a515b 5876
cbdee279 5877* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 5878
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5879* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5880 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 5881
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5882* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5883 library.
5884
e61abf83 5885* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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5886 functions from ISO C 9X.
5887
5888* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5889 real valued functions.
e61abf83 5890
a5a0310d 5891* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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5893* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5894
5895* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 5896
440d13e2 5897* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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5898
5899* Optimized string functions have been added.
5900
5901* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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5902
5903* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5905* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5906 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5907
5908 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5909 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5910
0dee6738 5911 user system wall
48244d09 5912
0dee6738 5913 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 5914
0dee6738 5915 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 5916
0dee6738 5917 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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5919 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5920
5921 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5922
5923 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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5925 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5926 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 5927 horribly slow.
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5929 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5930 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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5932* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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5933
5934* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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5935
5936* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5937 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5938
5939* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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5941* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5942 Bambrough.
5943
5944* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5945 latest draft standards.
5946
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5947* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5948
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5949* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5950~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5953argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5954argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5955argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5956argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5957argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5958argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5959argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5960argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5961argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5962argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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5963authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5964authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5965authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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5966backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5967backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5968backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5969cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
5970cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5971cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5972cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5973cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5974cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5975capget NEW: kernel
5976capset NEW: kernel
5977carg NEW: ISO C 9x
5978cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
5979cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
5980casin NEW: ISO C 9x
5981casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5982casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5983casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5984casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5985casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5986catan NEW: ISO C 9x
5987catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5988catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5989catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5990catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5991catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5994ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5995ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5996ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5997ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5998ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5999cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
6000cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
6001cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
6002cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
6003cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6004cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6005clearerr_locked REMOVED
6006clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6007clog NEW: ISO C 9x
6008clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6009clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6010clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6011clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
6012clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
6013conj NEW: ISO C 9x
6014conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
6015conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
6016cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
6017cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
6018cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
6019cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
6020cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6021cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6022creal NEW: ISO C 9x
6023crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6024creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6025creat64 NEW: LFS
6026csin NEW: ISO C 9x
6027csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6028csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6029csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6030csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6031csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6032csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
6033csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6034csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6035ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
6036ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6037ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6038ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6039ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6040ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6041des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6042ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6043endutxent NEW: Unix98
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6044exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6045exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6046exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6047exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6048exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6049exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6050fattach NEW: STREAMS
6051fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6052fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
6053fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
6054fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
6055feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6056fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6057fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6058fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6059feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6060feof_locked REMOVED
6061feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6062ferror_locked REMOVED
6063fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6064fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6065fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6066fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6067feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6068fflush_locked REMOVED
6069ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
6070ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
6071fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
6072fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6073fileno_locked REMOVED
6074fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6075fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6076fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6077fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6078fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6079fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6080fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6081fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6082fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6084fopen64 NEW: LFS
6085fputc_locked REMOVED
6086fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6087fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6088freopen64 NEW: LFS
6089fseeko NEW: Unix98
6090fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
6091fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
6092fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6093fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
6094ftello NEW: Unix98
6095ftello64 NEW: LFS
6096ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6097ftw64 NEW: LFS
6098fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6099gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6100gamma_r REMOVED
6101gammaf_r REMOVED
6102gammal_r REMOVED
6103getchar_locked REMOVED
6104getdate NEW: Unix98
6105getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6106getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6107getmsg NEW: STREAMS
6108getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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6111getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6112getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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6113getutxent NEW: Unix98
6114getutxid NEW: Unix98
6115getutxline NEW: Unix98
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6116glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6117globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6118gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6119gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6120grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 6121host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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6122iconv NEW: iconv
6123iconv_close NEW: iconv
6124iconv_open NEW: iconv
6125if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6126if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6127if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6128if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6129in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6130in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6131inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6132isastream NEW: STREAMS
6133iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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6134key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6135key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6136key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6137key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6138key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6139key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6140key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6141key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6142key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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6143llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6144llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6145llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6146llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6147llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6148llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6149log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6150log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6151log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6152lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6153lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6154lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6155lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6156lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6157lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6158lseek64 NEW: LFS
6159makecontext NEW: Unix98
6160mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6161mmap64 NEW: LFS
6162moncontrol REMOVED
6163modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6164nan NEW: ISO C 9x
6165nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6166nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6167nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6168nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6169nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6170netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6171netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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6172nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6173nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6174nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6175nftw NEW: Unix98
6176nftw64 NEW: LFS
6177open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 6178passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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6179pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
6180pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6181pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6182pread NEW: Unix98
6183pread64 NEW: LFS
6184printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6185printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6186profil_counter REMOVED
6187pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6188pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6189ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6190ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6191putc_locked REMOVED
6192putchar_locked REMOVED
6193putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6194putmsg NEW: STREAMS
6195putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 6196pututxline NEW: Unix98
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6197pwrite NEW: Unix98
6198pwrite64 NEW: LFS
6199readdir64 NEW: LFS
6200readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6201remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6202remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6203remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6204round NEW: ISO C 9x
6205roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6206roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6207rtime NEW: GNU ext.
6208scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6209scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6210scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6211scandir64 NEW: LFS
6212sendfile NEW: kernel
6213setcontext NEW: Unix98
6214setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 6215setutxent NEW: Unix98
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6216sighold NEW: Unix98
6217sigignore NEW: Unix98
6218sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6219sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6220sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6221sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6222sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6223sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6224sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6225sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6226statfs64 NEW: LFS
6227statvfs NEW: Unix98
6228statvfs64 NEW: LFS
6229strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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6230strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6231strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6232strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 6233svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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6234svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6235svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6236swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6237tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6238tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6239tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6240tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6241tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6242tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
6243trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
6244truncate64 NEW: LFS
6245truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6246truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6247umount2 NEW: kernel
6248unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 6249updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 6250user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6251utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 6252versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 6253versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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6254waitid NEW: Unix98
6255wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6256wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6257wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6258wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6259wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6260wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6261wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6262wcswcs NEW: Unix98
6263wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6264wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6265write_profiling REMOVED
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6267xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6268xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6269xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6270xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6271xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6272xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6273xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6274xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6275xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6276xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6277xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6278xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 6279xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 6280xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 6281~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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6283Version 2.0.6
6284
6285* more bug fixes
6286
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6288Version 2.0.5
6289
6290* more bug fixes
6291
6292* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6293
6294* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6295
6296* rewrite of cbrt function
6297
6298* update of timezone data
6299\f
6300Version 2.0.4
6301
6302* more bug fixes
6303\f
6304Version 2.0.3
6305
6306* more bug fixes
c84142e8 6307\f
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6308Version 2.0.2
6309
6310* more bug fixes
6311
6312* add atoll function
6313
6314* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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6315
6316* fix math functions
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6318Version 2.0.1
6319
6320* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6321
6322* dynamic loader preserves all registers
6323
6324* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6325 the ELF dynamic loader.
6326
6327* support for parallel builds is improved
6328\f
40a4b79f 6329Version 2.0
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6331* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6332 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6333 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
6334
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6335* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6336 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6337 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6338 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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6339 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6340 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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6341 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6342 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6343 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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6344 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6345 files in the ELF format.
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6346
6347* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6348 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6349
6350* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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6351 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6352 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6353 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6354 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6355 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6356 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6357 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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6358 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6359 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6360 about dynamically linked binaries.
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6362* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6363 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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6364 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6365 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6366 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 6367
f7eac6eb 6368* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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6369 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6370 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6371 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6372 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6373
6374* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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6376* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6377 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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6378 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6379 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6380 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6381 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6382 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6383 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6384 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 6385
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6386* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6387 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6388 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6389
6390* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6391 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6392 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6393
6394* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6395 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6396 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6397 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6398
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6399* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6400 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6401 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6402
6403* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6404 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6405 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6406
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6407* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6408 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6409
f7eac6eb 6410* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 6411 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 6412 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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6413 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6414
6415* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6416 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6417 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 6418
71733723 6419* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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6420 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6421 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6422 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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6423 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6424 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 6425 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 6426 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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6427
6428* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6429 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6430 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6431 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6432 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6433 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6434 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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6435
6436* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6437 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6438 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6439 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6440 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6441 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6442
6443* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6444 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6445
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6446* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6447 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6448 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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6450* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6451
6452* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6453 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6454 their use is discouraged.
6455
6456* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6457 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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6459* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6460 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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6461
6462* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6463 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6464
6465* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6466 see <dirent.h>.
6467
6468* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6469 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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6470 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6471 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6472 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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6473
6474* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6475 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6476 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6477 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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6478
6479* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6480 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6481
6482* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6483 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6484 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6485 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6486 number generator.
6487
6488* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6489 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6490
6491* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6492 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6493
71733723 6494* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 6495 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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6496 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6497 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 6498
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6499* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6500
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6501* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6502 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6503 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6504
6505* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6506 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 6508* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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6509 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6510 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6511 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6512
6513* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6514 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6515 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6516 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6517 programs already written to use it.)
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6518
6519* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6520 constants.
6521
6522* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6523 with 4.4 BSD.
6524
6525* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6526 a given effective group ID.
6527
6528* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6529 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6530 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6531 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6532
6533* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 6534 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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6535 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6536 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6537 doing the same thing.
6538
6539* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6540 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6541
6542* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 6543 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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6544
6545* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6546
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6547* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6548 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6549 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 6550 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 6551 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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6552
6553* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6554 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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6555
6556* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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6557 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6558 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6559 function.
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6560
6561* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6562
6563* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6564 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6565 strings.
6566
6567* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6568 and writing the utmp file.
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6569
6570* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6571 Thorsten Kukuk.
6572
6573* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6574 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6575 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6576
6577* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6578 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6579
6580* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6581 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6582 specification.
6583
6584* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6585 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6586 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6587 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6588
6589* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6590 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6591 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6592
6593* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6594 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6595 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6596 expression matcher.
6597
6598* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6599 functionality.
6600
6601* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6602 by Ulrich Drepper.
6603
6604* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6605
6606* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6607 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6608 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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6610Version 1.09
6611
6612* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6613
6614* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6615 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6616
6617* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6618 want to put themselves in the background.
6619
6620* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6621 run without an operating system.
6622
6623* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6624 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6625
6626* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6627 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6628
6629* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6630
6631* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6632 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6633 have YP (aka NIS).
6634
6635* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6636 conventions.
6637
6638* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6639 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6640\f
6641Version 1.08
6642
6643* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6644 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6645 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6646
6647* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6648 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6649
6650* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6651 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6652
6653* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6654
6655* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6656
6657* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6658 compatibility.
6659
6660* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6661 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6662 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6663
6664* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6665
6666* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6667 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6668 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6669
6670* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6671 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6672 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6673 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6674 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6675 on a block).
6676
6677* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6678 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6679 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6680 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6681 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6682 cross-compiler.
6683
6684* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6685 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6686\f
6687Version 1.07
6688
6689* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6690 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6691
6692* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6693 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6694 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6695
6696* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6697 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6698 address of the last character written.
6699
6700* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6701 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6702
6703* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6704 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6705
6706* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6707 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6708 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6709 you dereference this pointer.
6710
6711* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6712 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6713
6714* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6715 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6716 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6717 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6718
6719* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6720 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6721 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6722 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6723\f
6724Version 1.06
6725
6726* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6727 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6728 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6729 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 6730 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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6731
6732* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6733
6734* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6735
6736* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6737 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6738
6739* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6740 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6741
6742* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6743 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6744
6745* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6746 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6747 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6748 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6749 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6750
6751* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6752 to the error code in `errno'.
6753
6754* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6755 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6756 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6757 malloc'd string.
6758
6759* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6760 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6761 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6762
6763* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6764 uniquely-named temporary file.
6765\f
6766Version 1.05
6767
6768* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6769 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6770 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6771
6772* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6773 characters.
6774
6775* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6776 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6777
6778* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6779\f
6780Version 1.04
6781
6782* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6783 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6784 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6785 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6786
6787* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6788 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6789 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6790
6791* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6792 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6793
6794* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6795 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6796 made itself into a shared library.
6797
6798* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6799 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6800
6801* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6802 with limited length.
6803
6804* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6805
6806* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6807
6808* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6809
6810* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6811 function for traversing a directory tree.
6812
6813* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6814 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6815 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6816 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6817
6818* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6819 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6820
6821* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6822
6823* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6824 things to your strings.
6825
6826* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6827
6828* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6829 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6830 supporting those systems.
6831
6832* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6833 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6834 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6835 configuration files.
6836
6837* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6838 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6839
6840* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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6841 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6842 in <strings.h>.)
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6843
6844* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6845 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6846 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6847 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6848 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6849 required storage is not available.
6850
6851* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6852 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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6853
6854* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6855 latest files released from Berkeley.
6856\f
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9fcdec73 6858Copying conditions:
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6859
6860 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
6861 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
6862 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
6863 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
6864
6865 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
6866 of this document, or of portions of it,
6867 under the above conditions, provided also that they
6868 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
6869\f
6870Local variables:
6871version-control: never
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