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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
581c785b 2Copyright (C) 1992-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
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 2.36
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10Major new features:
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12 [Add new features here]
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14Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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16 [Add deprecations, removals and changes affecting compatibility here]
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18Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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20 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
21
22Security related changes:
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24 [Add security related changes here]
25
26The following bugs are resolved with this release:
27
28 [The release manager will add the list generated by
29 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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32Version 2.35
33
34Major new features:
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36* Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
37 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
38 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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40* Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
41 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
42
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43* Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
44 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
45 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
46 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
47 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
48 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
49 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
50 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
51 glibc, and must be installed.
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53* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
54 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
55 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
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57 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
58 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
59
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60 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
61 fMxfmafNx functions.
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63* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
64 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
65 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
66 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
67 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
68 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
69
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70* <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
71 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
72 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
73 M_SQRT1_2f.
74
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75* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
76 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
77
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78* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
79 macro in <tgmath.h>.
80
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81* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
82
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83* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
84 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
85 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
86
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87* A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
88 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
89 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
90 object dependency cases.
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92* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
93 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
94 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
95 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
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97* ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
98 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
99 return value is only used for its boolean status.
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101* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
102 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
103 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
104 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
105 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
106 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
107 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
108 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
109 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
110 Restartable Sequences.
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112* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
113 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
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115* All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
116 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
117 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
118 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
119 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
120 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
121 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
122 configuration.
123
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125 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
126 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
127 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
128 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
129 huge pages.
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131* The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
132 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
133
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134* The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
135 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
136 address.
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138* Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
139 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
140 ABI is supported:
141
142 - or1k-linux-gnu
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144 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
145 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
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147* A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
148 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
149 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
150 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
151 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
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153* On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
154 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
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156* The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
157 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
158 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
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160* Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
161 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
162 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
163 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
164 bounds).
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166Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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168* On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
169 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
170 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
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172* The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
173 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
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175 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
176 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
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178 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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180* Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
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182* The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
183 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
184 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
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186* The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
187 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
188 catching coredumps and backtraces.
189
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190* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
191 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
192 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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194Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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196* The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
197 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
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198 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
199 new dynamic loader supporing the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
200 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
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203 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
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204 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
205 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
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206
207Security related changes:
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209 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
210 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
211 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
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213 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
214 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
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216 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
217 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
218 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
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220 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
221 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
222 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
223 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
224 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
225
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226The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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228 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
229 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
230 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
231 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
232 many dsos
233 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
234 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
235 degradation
236 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
237 loaded with dlmopen
238 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
239 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
240 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
241 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
242 ID whose lifetime has not ended
243 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
244 (CVE-2022-23219)
245 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
246 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
247 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
248 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
249 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
250 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
251 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
252 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
253 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
254 --enable-initfini-array
255 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
256 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
257 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
258 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
259 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
260 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
261 empty
262 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
263 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
264 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
265 built with ld.lld
266 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
267 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
268 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
269 2.34
270 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
271 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
272 robustness
273 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
274 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
275 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
276 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
277 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
278 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
279 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
280 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
281 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
282 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
283 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
284 file
285 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
286 only dynamic section
287 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
288 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
289 recvmsg()
290 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
291 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
292 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
293 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
294 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
295 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
296 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
297 C2X
298 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
299 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
300 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
301 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
302 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
303 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
304 globalmod1.so
305 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
306 systems with TIMESIZE=64
307 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
308 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
309 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
310 spurious NUL character on state reset
311 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
312 incorrect
313 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
314 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
315 execution test
316 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
317 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
318 hppa
319 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
320 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
321 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
322 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
323 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
324 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
325 crashes
326 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
327 binutils changes
328 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
329 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
330 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
331 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
332 is not useful
333 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
334 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
335 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
336 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
337 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
338 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
339 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
340 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
341 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
342 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
343 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
344 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
345 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
346 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
347 (CVE-2022-23218)
348 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
349 (CVE-2021-3999)
350 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
351 results (CVE-2021-3998)
352 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
353 in Systemtap probes
354 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
355 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
356 x86-64-baseline
357 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
358 with no closing ]
359 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
360 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
361 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
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364Version 2.34
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366Major new features:
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368* In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
369 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
370 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
371 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
372 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
373 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
374 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
375 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
376 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
377 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
378 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
379 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
380 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
381 potentially exposing application bugs.
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383* When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
384 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
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385 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
386 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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388* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
389 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
57fb02b2 390 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
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391 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
392 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
393 Arm SVE.
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395* The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
396 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
397 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
398
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400 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
401 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
402 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
403
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405
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406* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
407 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
408 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
409 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
410 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
411
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413 --disable-scv configure option.
414
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416 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
417 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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419 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
420 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
421 version of 5.1.
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423* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
424 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
425 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
426 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
427 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
428 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
429 that directory.
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432 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
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434* The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
435 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
436 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
437 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
438 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
439 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
440 is currently a GNU extension.
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442* On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
443 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
444
60744950 445* The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
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446 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
447 although it is also present in other systems.
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449* The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
450 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
451 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
452 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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454* When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
455 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
456 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
457
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458* The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
459 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
460
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461Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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463* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
464 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
465 instead.
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467* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
468 programs should use the equivalent standard function
469 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
470
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471* The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
472 programs should use the equivalent standard function
473 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
474
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475* The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
476 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
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479
480* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
481 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
482 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
483 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
484 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
485 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
486 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
487 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
488 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
489 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
490 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
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493 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
494 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
495 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
496 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
497 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
498 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
499 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
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502 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
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507 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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510 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
511 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
512 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
513 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
514 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
515 upgrade or downgrade process.
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518 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
519 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
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522 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
523 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
524 no longer have any effect on malloc.
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527 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
528 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
529 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
530 this functionality back.
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533 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
534 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
535 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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538 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
539 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
540 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
541 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
542 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
543 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
544 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
545 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
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550 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
551 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
552 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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557 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
558 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
559 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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562 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
563 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
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566 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
567 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
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572 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
573 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
574 given integer (closefrom)
575 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
576 name containing multi-byte character(s)
577 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
578 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
579 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
580 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
581 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
582 random thread
583 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
584 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
585 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
586 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
587 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
588 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
589 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
590 manual is incorrect
591 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
592 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
593 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
594 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
595 pthread_create and dlopen
596 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
597 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
598 when non-root user changes priority
599 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
600 dlopen
601 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
602 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
603 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
604 ordered correctly
605 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
606 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
607 data.
608 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
609 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
610 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
611 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
612 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
613 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
614 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
615 the right free implementation
616 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
617 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
618 shm_open to pick wrong directory
619 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
620 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
621 protector=all)
622 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
623 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
624 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
625 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
626 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
627 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
628 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
629 uninitialized
630 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
631 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
632 system calls
633 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
634 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
635 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
636 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
637 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
638 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
639 deployments
640 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
641 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
642 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
643 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
644 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
645 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
646 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
647 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
648 is present
649 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
650 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
651 protector=all
652 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
653 information for the current directory
654 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
655 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
656 dl_runtime_resolve_*
657 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
658 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
659 containers
660 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
661 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
662 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
663 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
664 INT_MAX
665 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
666 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
667 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
668 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
669 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
670 tries resolving them lazily
671 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
672 libthread_db
673 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
674 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
675 argument
676 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
677 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
678 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
679 not set ENOMEM
680 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
681 randomization
682 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
683 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
684 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
685 IS_ERR_VALUE
686 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
687 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
688 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
689 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
690 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
691 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
692 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
693 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
694 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
695 with n >= 0x80000000
696 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
697 thread never allocated anything
698 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
699 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
700 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
701 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
702 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
703 on older kernels
704 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
705 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
706 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
707 AMD64 cpus
708 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
709 terminator
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714Major new features:
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717 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
718 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
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721 to change argv[0] string.
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724 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
725 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
726 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
727 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
728 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
729 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
730 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
731 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
732
733* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
734 information and library search path diagnostics.
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737 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
738 larger than fit in an integer.
739
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742* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
743 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
744
745 - rv32imac ilp32
746 - rv32imafdc ilp32
747 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
748
749 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
750 2.28.
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753 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
754 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
755 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
756 fortification.
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761 mallinfo2 instead.
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764 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
765 Instead, the default implementation is used.
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768 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
769 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
770 prlimit.
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773 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
774 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
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777 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
778 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
779 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
780 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
781 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
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784 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
785 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
786 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
787 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
788 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
789 loaded.
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794 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
795 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
796 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
797 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
798 perform any adjustments.
799
800* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
801 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
802 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
803 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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808
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812 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
813 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
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816 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
817 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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820 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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828 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
829 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
830 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
831 AT_EACCESS
832 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
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835 "haswell" platform subdirectory
836 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
837 with GCC
838 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
839 stack-protector=all
840 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
841 cases
842 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
843 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
844 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
845 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
846 changing gnuc version
847 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
848 incorrect
849 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
850 bits
851 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
852 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
853 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
854 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
855 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
856 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
857 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
858 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
859 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
860 too much stack space
861 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
862 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
863 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
864 with optimization.
865 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
866 anymore
867 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
868 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
869 non-FMA4 system
870 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
871 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
872 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
873 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
874 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
875 getaddrinfo
876 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
877 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
878 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
879 fault
880 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
881 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
882 at the end of a memory mapping
883 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
884 by the caller to the kernel
885 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
886 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
887 declarations for __sigsetjmp
888 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
889 monotonic clocks
890 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
891 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
892 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
893 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
894 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
895 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
896 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
897 one element
898 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
899 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
900 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
901 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
902 lazy bound
903 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
904 PI mutexes
905 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
906 not safe
907 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
908 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
909 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
910 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
911 platform
912 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
913 startup code
914 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
915 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
916 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
917 protected
918 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
919 only since 2.31
920 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
921 locked
922 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
923 aligned
924 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
925 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
926 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
927 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
928 detection logic
929 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
930 pclose(3))
931 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
932 setup
933 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
934 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
935 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
936 work
937 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
938 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
939 [27177] dynamic-link:
940 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
941 work
942 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
943 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
944 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
945 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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949
950Major new features:
951
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952* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
953 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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954 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
955
956* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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958* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
959 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
960 Three ABIs are supported:
961
962 - arc-linux-gnu
963 - arc-linux-gnuhf
964 - arceb-linux-gnu
965
4d3a77c7 966 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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967 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
968
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969* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
970 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
971
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4d3a77c7 973 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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974 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
975 this option.
976
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977* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
978 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
979 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
980
4d3a77c7 981* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
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982 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
983 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
984
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985* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
986 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
987 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
988 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
989 libpthread.
990
bfe05aa2 991* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
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992 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
993 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
994 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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995 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
996 NULL for an invalid signal number.
997
998 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
999 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1000
325081b9 1001* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
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1002 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1003 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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1004 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1005 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1006 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1007
1008 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1009 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1010
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1011* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1012 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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1013 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1014 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1015 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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1016 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1017 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1018 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1019 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1020 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1021 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1022 BTI compatible.
1023
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1027 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1028 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1029 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1030 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1031 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1032 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1033
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1035 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1036 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1037 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1038 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1039 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1040 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 1041 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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1044* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1045 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1046 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1047 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1048 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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1050* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1051 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1052 was not declared in any header file.
1053
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1054* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1055 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1056 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1057 sigaction functions instead.
1058
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1060 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1061
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1062* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1063 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1064 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1065 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1066 strsignal instead.
1067
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1068* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1069 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 1070 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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1071 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1072 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1073
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1074* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1075 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1076 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1077 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1078
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1079* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1080 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1081 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1082 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1083 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1084 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1085 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1086
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1088 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1089 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1090 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1091 flavor of secure RPC.)
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1093* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1094 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1095 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1096 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1097 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1098 object, to enable the hooks.
1099
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1100* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1101 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1102 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1103 LDAP.
1104
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1106
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1108 long double redirects.
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1110Security related changes:
1111
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1112 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1113 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1114 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1115
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1116 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1117 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1118 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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1120 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1121 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1122
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1123 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1124 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1125 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1126 TALOS-2020-1019).
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1131 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1132 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1133 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1134 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1135 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1136 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1137 filtee has constructor
1138 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1139 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1140 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1141 character entities for infinity & pi
1142 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1143 segfaults in applications
1144 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1145 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
1146 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1147 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1148 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1149 function with -mlong-double-64
1150 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1151 binding
1152 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1153 ld.so.cache
1154 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1155 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1156 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1157 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1158 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1159 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1160 linker
1161 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1162 dynamically loaded dsos
1163 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1164 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1165 access
1166 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1167 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1168 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1169 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1170 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1171 stale configuration forever
1172 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1173 (CVE-2020-10029)
1174 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1175 defaults to PIE
1176 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1177 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1178 (CVE-2020-6096)
1179 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1180 on 32 bit and old kernel
1181 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1182 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1183 Occitan
1184 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1185 amount of sigset_t bytes
1186 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1187 strings
1188 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1189 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1190 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1191 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1192 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1193 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1194 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1195 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1196 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1197 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1198 size_t
1199 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1200 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1201 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1202 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1203 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1204 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1205 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1206 cpu=power9
1207 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1208 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1209 segfault
1210 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1211 exiting detached thread
1212 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1213 for x32
1214 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1215 ERANGE
1216 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1217 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1218 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1219 dependencies in audit mode
1220 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1221 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1222 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1223 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1224 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1225 input
1226 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1227 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1228 preserve r2
1229 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1230 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1231 variables
1232 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1233 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1234 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1235 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1236 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1237 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1238 corruption in memset
1239
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1242
1243Major new features:
1244
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1245* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1246 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1247 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1248 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1249 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1250 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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1252* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1253 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1254 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1255 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1256
69ca4b54 1257* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 1258 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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1259 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1260
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1261* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
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1263* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1264 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1265 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1266 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1267 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1268 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1269 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1270 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1271
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1274* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1275 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1276 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1277 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1278 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1279 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
0b8c2f95 1280
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1282 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1283 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1284
1285* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1286 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1287 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1288 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1289
1290* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1291 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1292 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1293 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1294 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1295 made this no longer practical.
1296
1297 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1298 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1299 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1300 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1301 release.)
1302
1303 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1304 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1305 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1306
1307 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1308 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1309 using clock_gettime instead.
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1311* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1312 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1313 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1314 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1315 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1316
1317 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1318 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1319 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1320 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1321
1322 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1323 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1324 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1325 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1326 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1327 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1328
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1329 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1330 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1331 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1332 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1333 offset API.
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1336 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1337 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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1340 configurations.
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1343 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1344 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1345 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1346 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
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1349 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1350 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1351 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1352 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1353 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1354 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1355 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1356
1357 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1358 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1359
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1361 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1362 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1363 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1364 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1365 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
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1368
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1371 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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1374 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1375 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1376
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1378
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1379 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1380 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1381
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1382 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1383 environment variable during program execution after a security
1384 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1385 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1386 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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1388The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1390 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1391 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1392 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1393 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1394 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1395 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1396 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1397 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1398 linking failure
1399 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1400 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1401 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1402 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1403 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1404 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1405 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1406 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1407 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1408 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1409 7408-2005
1410 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1411 with localedef
1412 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1413 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1414 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1415 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1416 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1417 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1418 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1419 utmp entries
1420 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1421 ABSOLUTE ABI
1422 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1423 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1424 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1425 (stringop-overflow error)
1426 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1427 functions other can lead to crashes
1428 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1429 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1430 unconditionally
1431 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1432 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1433 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1434 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1435 still can fail with an error
1436 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1437 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1438 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1439 initialized correctly
1440 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1441 -frewrite-includes
1442 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1443 value to an unsigned
1444 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1445 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1446 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1447 protection
1448 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1449 ifunc variant.
1450 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1451 al. for Clang++
1452 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1453 (Slovenian)
1454 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1455 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1456 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1457 with -std=c11
1458 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1459 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1460 part
1461 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1462 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1463 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1464 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1465 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1466 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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1470
1471Major new features:
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1473* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1474 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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1475 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1476
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1477* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1478 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1480* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1481 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1482 to the callback function.
1483
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1486* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1487 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1488 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
1489
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1490* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1491
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1492* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1493 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1494 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1495 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1496 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
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1498* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1499 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1500 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1501 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1502 link time reference, is gone.
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1505 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1506 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1507 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1508 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1509 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1510 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1511 the clock choice at initialization time).
1512
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1514 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1515 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
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1518
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1519* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1520 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1521 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1522 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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1524 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1525 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1526 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1527 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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1529* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1530 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1531 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1532 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1533 since glibc 2.17.
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1535* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1536 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1537
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1538* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1539 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1540
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1541* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1542 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1543
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1544* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1545 BIND_NOW flag.
1546
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1547* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1548 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1549 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1550
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1551* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1552 header have been removed.
1553
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1554* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1555 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1556 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1557 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
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1562
1563 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1564 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1566Security related changes:
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1568 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1569 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1570 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1571 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1572 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1573 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1574 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1576 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1577 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1578 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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1582 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1583 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1584 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1585 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1586 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1587 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1588 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1589 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1590 invalid input drops valid char
1591 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1592 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1593 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1594 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1595 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1596 malloc.h.
1597 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1598 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1599 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1600 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1601 functions
1602 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1603 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1604 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1605 for long double = double
1606 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1607 long double = double
1608 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1609 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1610 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1611 long timeouts
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1613 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1614 checking for NULL.
1615 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1616 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1617 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1618 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1619 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1620 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1621 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1622 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1623 not the default "nor"
1624 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1625 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1626 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1627 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1628 compiler barriers.
1629 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1630 unnecessary librt dependencies
1631 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1632 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1633 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1634 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1635 unsorted chunk
1636 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1637 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1638 to R_SPARC_H44
1639 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1640 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1641 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1642 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1643 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1644 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1645 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1646 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1647 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1648 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1649 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1650 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1651 was not used
1652 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1653 tests
1654 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1655 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1656 time_t changes
1657 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1658 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1659 kernels and break testing
1660 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1661 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1662 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1663 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1664 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1665 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1666 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1667 -O3 -march=skylake
1668 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1669 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1670 crash
1671 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1672 linked glibc
1673 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1674 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1675 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1676 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1677 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1678 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1679 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1680 always implemented in the same library
1681 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1682 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1683 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1684 testroot
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1687Version 2.29
1688
1689Major new features:
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1691* The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
1692 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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1694* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1695 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1696 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1697 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1698 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1699 configured location.
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1703* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
1704 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
1705
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1706* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
1707 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1708 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1709 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1710 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1711 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1712 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1713 process actually does not use HTM).
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1716 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1717 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1718 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1719 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1720 of the same name.
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1722* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
1723 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1724 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 1725 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
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1726 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
1727
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1728* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1729 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1730 supported:
1731 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1732 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
1733
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1734* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
1735 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1736 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1737 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1738 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1739 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1740 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
1741
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1742* As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
1743 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1744 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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1747
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1749 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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1751* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
1752 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1753 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1754 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
1755
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1756* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
1757 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1758 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1759 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1760 structures.
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1763 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1764 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1765 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1766 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1767 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1768
1769 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1770 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1771 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1772 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1773 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1774
1775 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1776 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1777 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
1778
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1780
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1784 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1785
1786 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1787 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1791 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1792 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1793 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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1795 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
1796 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1797 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1798 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1799 Reported by H.J. Lu.
1800
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1801 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1802 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1803 or command injection issues in applications.
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1807 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1808 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1809 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1810 thousands
1811 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1812 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1813 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1814 --param options)
1815 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1816 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1817 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1818 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1819 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1820 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1821 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1822 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1823 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1824 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1825 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1826 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1827 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1828 pointer argument is non-NULL
1829 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1830 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1831 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1832 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1833 multithreads call popen
1834 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1835 and pthread_create fails.
1836 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1837 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1838 constructor
1839 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1840 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1841 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1842 source tree
1843 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1844 float
1845 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1846 one error
1847 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1848 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1849 linker
1850 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1851 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1852 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1853 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1854 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1855 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1856 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1857 filesystems
1858 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1859 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1860 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1861 functions
1862 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1863 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1864 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1865 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1866 have wrong type
1867 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1868 wrong type
1869 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1870 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1871 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1872 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1873 threads
1874 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1875 start.S
1876 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1877 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1878 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1879 powerpc64le
1880 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1881 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1882 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1883 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1884 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1885 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1886 strftime
1887 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1888 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1889 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1890 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1891 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1892 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1893 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1894 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1895 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1896 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1897 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1898 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1899 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1900 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1901 tcache size
1902 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1903 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1904 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1905 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1906 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1907 (CVE-2018-19591)
1908 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1909 nearest rounding mode
1910 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1911 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1912 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1913 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1914 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1915 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1916 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1917 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1918 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1919 error
1920 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1921 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1922 using GCC 8
1923 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1924 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1925 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1926 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1927 ppc64le
1928 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1929 expected result
1930 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1931 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1932 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1933 sigaltstack
1934 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1935 answers will be rejected)
1936 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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1939Version 2.28
1940
1941Major new features:
1942
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1943* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
1944 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1945 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1946 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1947 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1948 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1949 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1950 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1951 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1952 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1953 archive or binary locales.
1954
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1955* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
1956 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1957 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1958 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1959 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1960 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1961 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1962 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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1963 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
1964 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1965 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1966 validated for i686.
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1968* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
1969 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1970 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1971 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1972 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1973 field) to indicate such support is required.
1974
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1975* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1976 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1977 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1978
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1979* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1980 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1981
1982 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1983 fMxaddfNx functions.
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1985 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1986 fMxsubfNx functions.
1987
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1988 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1989 fMxmulfNx functions.
1990
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1991 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1992 fMxdivfNx functions.
1993
e607a352 1994* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 1995 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 1996 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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1997 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
1998 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 2000* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 2001 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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2003* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2004 patches.
2005
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2006* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2007 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2008 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2009 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2010 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2011 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2012 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2013 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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2015* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2016 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2017 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2018 the fstatat64 function.
2019
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2020* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2021 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2022 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2023 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2024 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2025 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2026 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2027 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2028 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2029
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2030* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2031 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2032 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2033 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2034 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2035 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2036 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2037 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2038 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2039 results in a load failure now.
2040
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2041* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2042 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2043 <threads.h>:
2044
2045 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2046 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2047
2048 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2049 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2050
2051 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2052
2053 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2054 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2055
2056 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2057
2058 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2059
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2061
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2062* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2063 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2064 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2065
2066* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2067 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2068 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2069 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2070 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2071 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2072
2073* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2074 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2075 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2076 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2077 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2078 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2079 (Bug #1190.)
2080
2081* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2082 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2083 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2084 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2085 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2086 further explanation.
2087
2088 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2089 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2090 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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2092* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2093
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2094* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2095 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2096 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2097
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2098* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2099 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2100 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2101 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2102
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2103* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2104 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2105 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2106 for this function instead.
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2108* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2109 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2110 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2111
2112* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2113 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2114 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2115 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2116
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2117* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2118 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2119 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2120 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2121 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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2123* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2124 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2125 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2126 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2127 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2128 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2129 such as libgcrypt.
2130
2131* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2132 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2133 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2134 enabled.
2135
2136* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2137 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2138 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2139
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2140* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2141 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2142 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2143 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2144 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2145 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2146
2147 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2148 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2149 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2150 behavior in a future release.
2151
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2153
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2156Security related changes:
2157
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2158 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2159 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2160 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2161 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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2163 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2164 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2165
2166 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2167 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2168 Izbyshev.
2169
2170 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2171 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2172 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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2176 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2177 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2178 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2179 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2180 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2181 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2182 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2183 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2184 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2185 14651
2186 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2187 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2188 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2189 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2190 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2191 conversion is given
2192 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2193 date
2194 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2195 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2196 scope with -O1 and higher
2197 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2198 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2199 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2200 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2201 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2202 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2203 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2204 horrible machine code)
2205 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2206 last constant.
2207 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2208 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2209 symbols
2210 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2211 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2212 defined
2213 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2214 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2215 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2216 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2217 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2218 fpscr.c'
2219 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2220 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2221 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2222 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2223 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2224 the base address
2225 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2226 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2227 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2228 open_verify
2229 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2230 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2231 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2232 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2233 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2234 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2235 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2236 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2237 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2238 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2239 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2240 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2241 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2242 dlopen
2243 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2244 AT_SECURE=1
2245 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2246 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2247 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2248 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2249 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2250 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2251 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2252 for Spanish with CLDR
2253 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2254 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2255 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2256 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2257 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2258 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2259 es_BO
2260 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2261 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
2262 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2263 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2264 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2265 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2266 dlopen failures
2267 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2268 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2269 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2270 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2271 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2272 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2273 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2274 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2275 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2276 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2277 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2278 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2279 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2280 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2281 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2282 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2283 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2284 makecontext
2285 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2286 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2287 required
2288 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2289 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2290 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2291 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2292 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2293 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2294 disabled
2295 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2296 failure
2297 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2298 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2299 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2300 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2301 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2302 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2303 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2304 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2305 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2306 and libc build with -Os)
2307 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2308 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2309 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2310 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2311 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2312 that changes /etc/passwd
2313 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2314 (CVE-2018-11237)
2315 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2316 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2317 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2318 posix/regcomp.c
2319 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2320 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2321 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2322 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2323 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2324 AT_SECURE
2325 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2326 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2327 parser.c
2328 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2329 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2330 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2331 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2332 directed rounding
2333 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2334 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2335 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2336 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2337 lookup
2338 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2339 interposition
2340 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2341 DSO boundaries.
2342 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2343 <linux/time.h>
2344 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2345 checking
2346 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2347 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2348 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2349 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2350 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2351 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2352 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2353 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2354 processors
2355 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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2358Version 2.27
2359
2360Major new features:
2361
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2362* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2363 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 2364 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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2365 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2366 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2367 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2368 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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2369 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2370 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 2371
ac817e08 2372* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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2373 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2374 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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2376* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2377
4cf82d23 2378* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
72aa6233 2379
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2380* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2381 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2382 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2383 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2384 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2385 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2386 from a security and performance perspective.
2387
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2388* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2389 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2390 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2391 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2392
81325b12 2393* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
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2394 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2395 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2396 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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2397 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2398
a23aa5b7 2399* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 2400 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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2401 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2402 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2403 _Float128.
2404
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2405* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2406 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2407 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 2408
4bab0224 2409* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
59d2cbb1 2410
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2411* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2412 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2413 pkey_get.
2414
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2415* The copy_file_range function was added.
2416
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2417* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2418
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2419* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2420 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2421 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2422
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2423* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2424 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2425 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2426 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2427 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2428 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2429 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2430
2431 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2432 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2433 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2434 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2435 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2436 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2437 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2438
2439 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2440 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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2441 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2442 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2443 respectively.
2444
2445 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2446 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2447 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2448 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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2449
2450 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2451 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2452 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2453
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2454 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2455 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 2456 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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2458* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2459 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2460 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2461
2462 - rv64imac lp64
2463 - rv64imafdc lp64
2464 - rv64imafdc lp64d
2465
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2466Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2467
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2468* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2469 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 2470 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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2471 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2472 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2473 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2474 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2475 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2476 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2477 fix this.
2478
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2479* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2480 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2481 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2482
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2483* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2484 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2485 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2486 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2487 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2488 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2489 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2490 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2491 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2492 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2493 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2494 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2495 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2496 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2497 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2498 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2499 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2500 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2501 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2502 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2503 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2504 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2505 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2506 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2507 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2508 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2509
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2510* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2511 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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2513* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2514 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2515 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2516 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2517 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2518 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2519 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2520
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2521* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2522 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2523 exp10l for these functions instead.
2524
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2525* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2526 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2527 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2528
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2529* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2530 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2531 ignored.
2532
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2533* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2534 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2535 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2536 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2537
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2538* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2539 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2540
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2541* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2542 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2543
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2544* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2545 programs.
2546
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2547* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2548
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2549* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2550 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2551 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2552 instead.
2553
2554 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2555 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2556 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2557 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2558 use, but predates the bits convention.
2559
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2560Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2561
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2562* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2563 subdirectory.
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2564
2565Security related changes:
2566
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2567 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2568 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2569 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2570 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2571 script.)
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2573 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2574 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2575 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2576 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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2578 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2579 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2580 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2581 of service.
2582
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2583 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2584 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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2585 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2586
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2587 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2588 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2589 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2590 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2591
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2592 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2593 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2594 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2595 Qualys.
2596
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2597 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2598 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2599 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2600 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2601 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2602
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2603 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2604 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2605 current directory.
2606
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2607 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2608 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2609 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2610
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2611 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2612 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2613 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2614
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2615 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2616 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2617 small, instead of NULL.
2618
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2619The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2620
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2621 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2622 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2623 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2624 locale
2625 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2626 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2627 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2628 cases
2629 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2630 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2631 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2632 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2633 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2634 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2635 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2636 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2637 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2638 "Bangla"
2639 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2640 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2641 width Latin characters
2642 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2643 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2644 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2645 letters
2646 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2647 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2648 (CVE-2009-5064)
2649 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2650 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2651 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2652 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2653 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2654 if malloc succeeded
2655 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2656 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2657 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2658 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2659 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2660 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2661 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2662 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2663 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2664 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2665 U+309A
2666 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2667 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2668 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2669 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2670 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2671 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2672 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2673 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2674 for Nicaragua
2675 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2676 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2677 are not found.
2678 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2679 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2680 access
2681 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2682 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2683 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2684 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2685 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2686 __regcall calling convention
2687 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2688 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2689 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2690 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2691 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2692 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2693 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2694 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2695 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2696 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2697 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2698 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2699 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2700 locale
2701 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2702 protector=all
2703 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2704 wcwidth
2705 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2706 consistency check failures
2707 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2708 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2709 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2710 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2711 PIE
2712 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2713 locales
2714 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2715 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2716 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2717 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2718 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2719 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2720 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2721 on memory allocation failure
2722 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2723 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2724 the suspect)
2725 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2726 default (i386)
2727 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2728 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2729 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2730 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2731 instead of EAI_NODATA
2732 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2733 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2734 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2735 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2736 implementation
2737 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2738 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2739 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2740 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2741 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2742 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2743 allocation in syscall loops)
2744 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2745 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2746 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2747 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2748 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2749 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2750 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2751 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2752 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2753 occur with -O3
2754 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2755 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2756 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2757 amounts)
2758 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2759 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2760 niu_NZ
2761 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2762 checks
2763 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2764 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2765 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2766 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2767 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2768 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2769 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2770 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2771 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2772 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2773 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2774 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2775 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2776 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2777 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2778 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2779 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2780 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2781 parsing after OOM
2782 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2783 object
2784 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2785 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2786 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
2787 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2788 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2789 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 2790 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
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2791 ppc64le
2792 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2793 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2794 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2795 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2796 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2797 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2798 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2799 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2800 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2801 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2802 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2803 math_force_eval
2804 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2805 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2806 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2807 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2808 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2809 the svid compat wrapper
2810 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2811 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2812 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2813 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2814 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2815 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2816 --verbose.
2817 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2818 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2819 to 2.26
2820 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2821 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2822 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2823 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2824 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2825 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2826 (CVE-2017-15804)
2827 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2828 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2829 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2830 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2831 failure."
2832 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2833 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2834 -m32
2835 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2836 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2837 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2838 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2839 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2840 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2841 inside the ASCII printable range
2842 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2843 -mlong-double-64
2844 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2845 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2846 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2847 Internet
2848 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2849 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2850 backslash
2851 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2852 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2853 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2854 heaps in an arena
2855 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2856 networking interface
2857 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2858 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2859 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2860 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2861 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2862 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2863 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2864 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2865 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2866 order
2867 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2868 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2869 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2870 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2871 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2872 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2873 same as for Croatian
2874 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2875 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2876 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2877 for initial thread"
2878 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2879 SC_SSIZE_MAX
2880 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2881 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2882 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2883 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2884 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2885 (CVE-2017-1000408)
2886 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2887 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2888 modified in case of success
2889 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2890 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2891 success
2892 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2893 stack-protector=all
2894 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2895 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2896 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2897 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2898 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2899 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2900 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2901 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2902 adding it on top
2903 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2904 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2905 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2906 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2907 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2908 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2909 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2910 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2911 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2912 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2913 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2914 elision and tunables
2915 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2916 "invalid" exception
2917 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2918 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2919 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2920 exception
2921 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2922 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2923 power4
2924 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2925 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2926 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2927 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2928 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2929 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2930 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2931 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2932 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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2935Version 2.26
2936
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2937Major new features:
2938
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2939* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2940 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2941 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2942 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2943 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2944 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2945 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2946
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2947* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2948 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 2949 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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2950 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2951 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2952 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2953 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
58557c22 2954
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2955* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2956 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2957 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 2958
2b2ccd0c 2959* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 2960
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2961 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2962 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2963 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 2964
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2965 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2966 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2967 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2968 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2969 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 2970
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2971 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2972 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2973 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 2974
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2975* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2976 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 2977
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2978* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2979 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2980 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2981 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 2982
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2983* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2984 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2985 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2986 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 2987
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2988* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2989 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2990 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2991 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 2992
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2993* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2994 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2995 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 2996
2b2ccd0c 2997* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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2998 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2999 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3000 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 3001
2b2ccd0c 3002 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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3003 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3004 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3005 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3006 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3007
3008 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3009 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3010 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3011 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3012 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3013 interfaces should be used instead.
f819dbea 3014
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3015Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3016
3017* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3018 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3019 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3020 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3021 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3022 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3023 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3024 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3025
3026* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3027 removed.
3028
3029* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 3030 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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3031 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3032 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3033
3034* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3035 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3036 default.
3037
3038 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3039 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3040 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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3041 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3042 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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3043
3044 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3045 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3046 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3047 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3048
3049* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3050 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3051 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3052 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3053
3054* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3055 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 3056
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3057* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3058 exported by accident.
3059
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3060* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3061 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3062 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3063
3064* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3065 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3066 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3067 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3068
3069* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3070
3071* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3072
3073* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3074 free instead.
3075
3076* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3077 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3078
3079* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3080 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3081
3082* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3083 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3084 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3085 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3086 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3087 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3088 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3089 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3090
3091* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3092 synced with the kernel:
3093
3094 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3095 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3096
3097 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3098 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3099 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3100
3101 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3102 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3103
3104Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3105
3106* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3107 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3108 x86-32 and x86-64.)
3109
7e368000 3110* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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3112* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3113 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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3114
3115 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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3116 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3117 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3118 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 3119 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
aef16cc8 3120
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3121Security related changes:
3122
e14a2772 3123* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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3124 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3125
3126* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3127 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3128
3129* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3130 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3131 (CVE-2010-3192).
3132
3133* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3134 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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3135
3136The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3137
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3138 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3139 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3140 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3141 fields
3142 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3143 (CVE-2010-3192)
3144 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3145 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3146 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3147 ld.bfd is available
3148 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3149 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3150 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3151 x86 and other generic code
3152 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3153 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3154 incorrect
3155 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3156 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3157 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3158 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3159 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3160 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3161 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3162 resolver
3163 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3164 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3165 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3166 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3167 chillu characters
3168 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3169 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3170 receiving data
3171 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3172 whitespace
3173 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3174 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3175 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3176 for Peru
3177 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3178 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3179 failures consistently
3180 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3181 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3182 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3183 frame-pointer on i386
3184 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3185 register
3186 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3187 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3188 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3189 generic c code is used
3190 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3191 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3192 around 4000
3193 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3194 (CVE-2017-12133)
3195 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3196 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3197 with -lieee
3198 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3199 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3200 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3201 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3202 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3203 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3204 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3205 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3206 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3207 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3208 remove()
3209 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3210 checked for errors.
3211 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3212 new posix_spawn implementation
3213 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3214 leads to lower CPU frequency
3215 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3216 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3217 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3218 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3219 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3220 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3221 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3222 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3223 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3224 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3225 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3226 not support gethostbyname4_r
3227 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3228 switching
3229 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3230 arenas
3231 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3232 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3233 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3234 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3235 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3236 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3237 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3238 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3239 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3240 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3241 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3242 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3243 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3244 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3245 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3246 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3247 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3248 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3249 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3250 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3251 retry value
3252 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3253 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3254 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3255 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3256 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3257 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3258 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3259 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3260 [21537] libc:
3261 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3262 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3263 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3264 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3265 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3266 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3267 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3268 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3269 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3270 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3271 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3272 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3273 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3274 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3275 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3276 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3277 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3278 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3279 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3280 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3281 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3282 issue on x86-64
3283 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3284 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3285 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3286 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3287 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3288 construction
3289 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3290 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3291 between_2_3
3292 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3293 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3294 conditions
3295 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3296 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3297 Hindi Locale
3298 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3299 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3300 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3301 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3302 locale
3303 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3304 leading to relocation crash
3305 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3306 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3307 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3308 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3309 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3310 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3311 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3312 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3313 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3314 locale
3315 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3316 locale
3317 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3318 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3319 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3320 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3321 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3322 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3323 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3324 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3325 strings
3326 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3327 protector=all
3328 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3329 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
3330 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3331 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3332 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3333 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3334 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3335 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3336 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3337 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3338 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3339 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3340 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3341 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3342 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3343 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3344 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3345 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3346 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3347 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3348 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3349 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3350 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3351 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3352 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3353 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3354 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3355 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3356 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3357 with unicode 9.0
3358 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3359 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3360 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3361 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3362 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 3363
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3365Version 2.25
3366
48789000
JM
3367* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3368 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3369 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3370 Library.
e720d3d9 3371
bf91be88
JM
3372* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3373 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 3374 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
bf91be88
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3375 the GNU C Library.
3376
412cb261
JM
3377* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3378 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3379 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3380 the GNU C Library.
3381
c0307377
ZW
3382* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3383 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3384 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3385 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3386 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3387 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3388 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3389 will not.
3390
3391 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3392 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3393 many years.
3394
dbab6577
ZW
3395* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3396 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3397 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3398
3399 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3400 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3401 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3402 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3403 problem.
3404
ec94343f 3405* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
c0b43536
JM
3406 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3407 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 3408
a292f45a
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3409* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3410 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
5b17fd0d
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3411 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3412 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3413 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3414 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3415 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3416 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3417 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3418 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3419 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3420 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 3421
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3422* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3423
f82a4bdb
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3424 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3425
423c2b9d
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3426 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3427 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3428 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 3429
55a38f82
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3430 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3431 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3432
525f8039
JM
3433 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3434 fminmagf, fminmagl.
3435
1e7c8fcc
JM
3436 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3437
29cb9293 3438 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 3439
cc6a8d74
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3440 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3441 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 3442
eaf5ad0b
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3443 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3444
eb3c12c7 3445 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 3446 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 3447
f3b904d9
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3448* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3449 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3450
cecbc796
NA
3451* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3452 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3453 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3454
ea1bd74d
ZW
3455* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3456 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3457 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3458 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3459 effects of the memory clear).
3460
b0216d3e
JM
3461* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3462 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3463 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3464 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3465
f3b904d9
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3466* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3467 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3468 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3469 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3470 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3471 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 3472
92dcaa3e
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3473* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3474 have been added.
3475
705a79f8
FW
3476* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3477 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3478 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3479 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3480 as large as several megabytes.
3481
4d728087
FW
3482* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3483 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3484 been removed.
3485
e863cce5
FW
3486* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3487 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3488 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3489 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3490 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3491 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3492 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3493
7ec47a85
FW
3494* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3495 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3496 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3497 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3498
099191b1 3499* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
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3500 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3501 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3502 Internet.
3503
bbe989ee
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3504* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3505 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3506 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 3507
b76e0659
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3508* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3509 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3510 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3511 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3512
3a2a1d2c
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3513* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3514 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3515 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3516 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3517 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3518
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3519* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3520 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3521 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3522 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3523 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3524
6815a33d
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3525* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3526 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3527 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3528 did not reflect that.
3529
022dfdce
SL
3530* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3531 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3532 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3533 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3534 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3535 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3536 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3537 'gcc/config.gcc'.
3538
23b5cae1
MG
3539* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3540 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3541 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3542 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3543
7715d3ab
SP
3544* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3545 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3546 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3547 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3548
0cea3587
SP
3549* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3550 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3551 guarantees.
3552
3553* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3554 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3555 make state changes.
3556
e720d3d9
CD
3557Security related changes:
3558
fc82b0a2 3559* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4d047efd
FW
3560 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3561 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3562 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 3563 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 3564
fc82b0a2
FW
3565* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3566 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3567 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3568 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3569 (CVE-2015-5180)
3570
e720d3d9
CD
3571The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3572
fdb724f9 3573 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
3574 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3575 protector-all
3576 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3577 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3578 before it started waiting
3579 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3580 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3581 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3582 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3583 wrong type
3584 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3585 library linked with pthread
3586 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3587 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3588 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3589 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3590 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3591 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3592 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3593 when it shouldnt
3594 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3595 not
3596 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3597 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3598 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3599 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3600 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3601 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3602 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3603 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3604 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3605 termination
3606 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3607 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3608 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3609 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3610 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3611 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3612 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3613 causes a segmentation fault
3614 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3615 linking
3616 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3617 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3618 uninitialized GOT
3619 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3620 versions
3621 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3622 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3623 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3624 is always true.
3625 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3626 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3627 modes
3628 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3629 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3630 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3631 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3632 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3633 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3634 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3635 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3636 libpthread.a
3637 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3638 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3639 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3640 _res_hconf
3641 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3642 information.
3643 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3644 penalty
3645 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3646 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3647 cause transition penalty
3648 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3649 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3650 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3651 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3652 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3653 mcount.oS)
3654 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3655 Checking
3656 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3657 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3658 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3659 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3660 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3661 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3662 multi-arch
3663 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3664 (RES_USEBSTRING)
3665 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3666 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3667 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3668 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3669 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3670 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3671 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3672 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3673 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3674 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3675 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3676 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3677 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3678 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3679 glibc
3680 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3681 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3682 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3683 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3684 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3685 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3686 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3687 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3688 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3689 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3690 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3691 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3692 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3693 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3694 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3695 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3696 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3697 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3698 RES_USE_INET6
3699 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3700 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3701 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3702 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3703 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3704 wrong condition
3705 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3706 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3707 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3708 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3709 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3710 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3711 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3712 clang
3713 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3714 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3715 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3716 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3717 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 3718\f
11fca961
AZ
3719Version 2.24
3720
5b4ecd3f
JM
3721* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3722 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3723 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3724 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3725 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3726 architectures.
3727
b6ebba70
MF
3728* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3729 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3730 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 3731
7584a3f9
FW
3732* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3733 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3734
b49ab5f4
FW
3735* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3736 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3737 instead of “union wait”.
3738
ced8f893
SG
3739* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3740 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3741 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3742 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3743 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3744 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3745 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3746
2ba3cfa1
FW
3747* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3748 API.
3749
b7a9b7b0
MF
3750* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3751 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3752 drop it.
6a54bcda 3753
41a359e2
RS
3754* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3755 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3756 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3757 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3758 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3759 extensions.
3760
11fca961
AZ
3761Security related changes:
3762
f5b3338d
FW
3763* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3764 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3765 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3766
4ab2ab03
FW
3767* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3768 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3769 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3770 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 3771
5171f307
FW
3772* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3773 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3774 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3775
bc779a1a
FW
3776* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3777 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3778 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3779
fab38231
FW
3780* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3781 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3782 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3783 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3784
11fca961
AZ
3785The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3786
3c4f81ec
CD
3787 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3788 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3789 of MS-DOS.
3790 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3791 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3792 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3793 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3794 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3795 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3796 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3797 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3798 CLDR data
3799 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3800 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3801 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3802 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3803 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3804 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3805 romanisation
3806 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3807 and +/-
3808 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3809 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3810 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3811 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3812 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3813 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3814 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3815 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3816 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3817 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3818 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3819 all locales
3820 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3821 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3822 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3823 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3824 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3825 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3826 execute
3827 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3828 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3829 -Wsystem-headers
3830 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3831 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3832 Romanian locale data
3833 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3834 symbol
3835 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3836 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3837 language
3838 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3839 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3840 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3841 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3842 machine
3843 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3844 description
3845 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3846 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3847 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3848 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3849 when using RTLD_NEXT
3850 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3851 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3852 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3853 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3854 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3855 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3856 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3857 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3858 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3859 Excavator core
3860 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3861 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3862 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3863 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3864 double range
3865 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3866 part zero incorrect
3867 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3868 equality tests
3869 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3870 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3871 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3872 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3873 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3874 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3875 glibc-2.22
3876 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3877 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3878 'tst-numeric.c'
3879 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3880 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3881 low part
3882 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3883 result
3884 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3885 unaligned stack
3886 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3887 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3888 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3889 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3890 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3891 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3892 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3893 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3894 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3895 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3896 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3897 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3898 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3899 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3900 modes
3901 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3902 server addresses
3903 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3904 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3905 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3906 response to getaddrinfo
3907 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3908 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3909 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3910 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3911 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3912 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3913 sometimes incorrect
3914 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3915 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3916 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3917 record types
3918 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3919 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3920 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3921 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3922 (CVE-2016-3075)
3923 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3924 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3925 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3926 resolving symbols
3927 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3928 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3929 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3930 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3931 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3932 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3933 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3934 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3935 gethosts
3936 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3937 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3938 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3939 (CVE-2016-3706)
3940 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3941 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3942 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3943 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3944 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3945 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3946 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3947 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3948 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3949 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3950 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3951 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3952 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3953 executable
3954 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3955 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3956 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3957 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3958 XPG3
3959 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3960 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3961 (CVE-2016-4429)
3962 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3963 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3964 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3965 AS not supporting AVX512
3966 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3967 sNaN argument
3968 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3969 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3970 argument
3971 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3972 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3973 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3974 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3975 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3976 eax=0x80000001
3977 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3978 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3979 subnormals
3980 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3981 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3982 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3983 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3984 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3985 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3986 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3987 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3988 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3989 input
3990 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3991 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3992 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3993 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3994 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3995 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3996 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3997 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3998 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3999 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4000 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4001 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4002 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4003 double rounding
4004 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4005 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4006 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4007 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4008 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4009 (Only arm/linux)
4010 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4011 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4012 fallbacks
4013 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4014 "invalid" exceptions
4015 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4016 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4017 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4018 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4019 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4020 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4021 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4022 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4023 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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4025Version 2.23
4026
23256f5e
MF
4027* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4028 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4029 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4030 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4031 89, 16061, and 18568.
4032
2359035a
FW
4033* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4034 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4035 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4036 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4037 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4038 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4039 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4040
8b7b7f75
MW
4041* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4042 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4043 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4044
2eecc8af
FW
4045* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4046 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4047 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4048 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4049 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4050 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4051 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4052
a62719ba
FW
4053* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4054 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4055 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4056 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4057 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 4058 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
4059 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4060 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 4061
bc148ca1
MF
4062* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4063 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4064 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4065 independent of the GNU C Library.
4066
1c70b6f1
ZW
4067* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4068 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 4069
eed3e1eb
JM
4070* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4071 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4072 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4073 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4074 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4075 Linux kernel.
4076
1efad39b
SL
4077* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4078 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 4079
d709042a
JM
4080* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4081 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4082 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4083 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4084 defining their own copy.
4085
b08b4218
JM
4086* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4087 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4088 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 4089
8f5e8b01
JM
4090Security related changes:
4091
6400ae6e
FW
4092* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4093 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4094
4095* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4096 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4097 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4098 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4099 (CVE-2015-8777)
4100
4101* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4102 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4103
4104* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4105 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4106
8f5e8b01
JM
4107* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4108 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 4109 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 4110
e9db92d3
CD
4111* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4112 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4113 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4114 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4115 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4116 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4117 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4118 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4119 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4120 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4121 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4122 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4123 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4124
ad372e29 4125The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 4126
ad372e29
AZ
4127 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4128 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4129 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4130 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4131 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4132 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4133 use `mkstemp'
4134 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4135 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
4136 overflow/underflow errors
4137 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4138 overflow/underflow
4139 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4140 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4141 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4142 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4143 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4144 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4145 are not contiguous
4146 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4147 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4148 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4149 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4150 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4151 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4152 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4153 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4154 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4155 all exceptions
4156 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4157 arguments
4158 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4159 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4160 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4161 should include
4162 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4163 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4164 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4165 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4166 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4167 GNU/Linux
4168 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4169 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4170 arguments
4171 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4172 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4173 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4174 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4175 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4176 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4177 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4178 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4179 rounding results
4180 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4181 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4182 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4183 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4184 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4185 fails
4186 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4187 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4188 block boundary
4189 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4190 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4191 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4192 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4193 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4194 4.7?
4195 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4196 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4197 (related to lock elision)
4198 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4199 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4200 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4201 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4202 (CVE-2015-8779)
4203 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4204 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4205 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4206 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4207 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4208 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4209 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4210 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4211 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4212 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4213 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4214 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4215 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4216 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4217 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4218 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4219 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4220 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4221 contains a vector instruction exception.
4222 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4223 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4224 locales
4225 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4226 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4227 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4228 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4229 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4230 missing break ?
4231 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4232 32bit processes
4233 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4234 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4235 infinity
4236 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4237 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4238 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4239 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4240 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4241 be forced unloaded
4242 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4243 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4244 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4245 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4246 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4247 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4248 statically too large
4249 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4250 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4251 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4252 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4253 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4254 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4255 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4256 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4257 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4258 FUTEX_SHARED
4259 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4260 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4261 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4262 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4263 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4264 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4265 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4266 opendir()
4267 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4268 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4269 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4270 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4271 signgam
4272 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4273 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4274 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4275 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4276 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4277 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4278 dependencies
4279 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4280 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4281 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4282 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4283 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4284 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4285 (CVE-2015-8776)
4286 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4287 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4288 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4289 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4290 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4291 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4292 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4293 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4294 contention
4295 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4296 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4297 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4298 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4299 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4300 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4301 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4302 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4303 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4304 rounding modes
4305 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4306 ILP32
4307 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4308 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4309 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4310 threshold
4311 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4312 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4313 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4314 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4315 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4316 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4317 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4318 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4319 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4320 pthread_setaffinity_np
4321 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4322 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4323 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4324 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4325 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4326 prelink
4327 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4328 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4329 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4330 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4331 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4332 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4333 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4334 bits/mathcalls.h
4335 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4336 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4337 for C99-based standards
4338 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4339 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4340 math-only
4341 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4342 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4343 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4344 disabled
4345 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4346 "inexact" exceptions
4347 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4348 arguments
4349 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4350 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4351 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4352 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4353 rules
4354 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4355 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4356 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4357 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4358 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4359 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4360 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4361 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4362 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4363 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4364 from 32bit
4365 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4366 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4367 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4368 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4369 subnormals
4370 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4371 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4372 error on 32-bit architectures
4373 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4374 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4375 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4376 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4377 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4378 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4379 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4380 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4381 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4382 -Os
4383 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4384 CPU's.
4385 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4386 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4387 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4388 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4389 architectures
4390 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
aeb47bbc 4391\f
1c7a4a51
JM
4392Version 2.22
4393
4394* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4395
3df5cd98 4396 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
4397 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4398 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4399 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4400 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4401 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4402 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4403 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4404 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4405 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4406 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4407 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4408 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4409 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4410 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4411 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4412 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4413 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
4414 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4415 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 4416
f7fba805
SL
4417* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4418 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4419
2959eda9
AS
4420* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4421 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4422 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4423 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4424 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4425 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 4426
42261ad7
FW
4427* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4428 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4429 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4430 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4431 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4432
afcd9480
AM
4433* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4434 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4435 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4436
4a4839c9
AO
4437* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4438 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4439 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4440 17998.
4441
b13b96ca
AS
4442* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4443 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4444 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
4445
4446* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
4447 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4448 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
4449 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4450 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
4451 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4452 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 4453 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
4454
4455* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4456 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4457 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4458 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
4459
4460* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4461 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4462 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
4463
4464* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4465 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
4466
4467* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4468 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4469 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4470
a03ba363 4471 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
4472 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4473 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 4474\f
58b930ae
SP
4475Version 2.21
4476
4477* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4478
042e1521 4479 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
4480 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4481 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4482 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4483 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4484 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4485 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4486 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4487 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4488 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4489 17892.
4490
46d54873
FW
4491* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4492 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4493 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4494 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4495 intended.
042e1521
CD
4496
4497* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4498 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4499 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4500 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4501 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4502 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 4503
522e6ee3
CLT
4504* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4505
d3b00f46
AZ
4506* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4507 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 4508 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 4509
8d2c0a59
AZ
4510* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4511 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4512 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4513 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4514 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4515 effects being visible outside transactions.
4516
dc400d7b
RE
4517* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4518 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 4519
0f9dfe04
L
4520* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4521
a39208bd
CD
4522* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4523 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 4524 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
4525 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4526 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 4527
a5357b7c
JL
4528* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4529 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4530
e54db0ea
AM
4531* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4532 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4533 format.
11e3417a 4534
4863355a
JM
4535* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4536 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4537 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4538
a4ecc9eb
JM
4539* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4540 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4541
0d560bbf 4542* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
4543
4544* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4545 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4546 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4547 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
4548
4549* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4550 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
4551
4552* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4553 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4554 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4555 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4556 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4557 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4558 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4559 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4560 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4561 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4562 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4563 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4564 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4565
4566 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4567 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4568 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4569 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4570 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 4571\f
d5b396c1
AM
4572Version 2.20
4573
4574* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4575
6a9350c8
JM
4576 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4577 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4578 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4579 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4580 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4581 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4582 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4583 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4584 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4585 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4586 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4587 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4588 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4589 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4590 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 4591
95ee7fb1
SL
4592* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4593 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4594 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4595 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4596 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 4597 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
4598 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4599 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4600 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4601 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4602
0961f7e1
JL
4603* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4604 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4605 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4606 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4607 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 4608
f940b965
RE
4609* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4610
d0f5b3f8
JM
4611* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4612 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4613
d6fe5e58
JM
4614* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4615 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4616 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4617 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4618 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4619 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4620
464263cc
JM
4621* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4622 from ports.
c941736c
JM
4623
4624* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4625 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4626 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4627 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4628 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4629 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4630 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
4631
4632* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
4633
4634* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4635 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4636 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4637 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4638 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4639 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4640 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
4641
4642* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4643 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4644 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4645 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4646 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
4647
4648* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4649 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4650 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
4651
4652* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4653 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4654 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4655 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
4656
4657* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4658 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4659 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4660 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4661 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4662 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4663 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4664 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
4665
4666* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4667 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4668 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4669 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4670 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4671 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4672 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4673 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4674 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
4675
4676* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4677 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4678 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4679 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4680 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 4681 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
4682
4683* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4684 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4685 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4686 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
4687\f
4688Version 2.19
4689
4690* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4691
fd2f9486
JM
4692 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4693 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4694 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4695 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4696 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4697 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4698 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4699 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4700 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4701 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
4702 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4703 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4704 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4705 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4706 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
4707 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4708 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4709 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 4710
11520a57
CD
4711* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4712 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4713
2fe16229
CD
4714* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4715 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4716 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
4717 extension which uses __block.
4718
303e567a
SP
4719* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4720 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4721 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4722 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4723 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4724
141f3a77
SP
4725* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4726 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4727 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4728 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4729 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
4730
4731* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4732 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4733 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4734 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4735 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
4736
4737* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4738 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4739 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4740
ba0d798c
WN
4741* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4742 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4743 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4744 #15856, #15857).
4745
7cbcdb36
SP
4746* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4747 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4748
82bab04b 4749* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 4750 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 4751
c5f840fd
MB
4752* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4753
3e181dda
CD
4754* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4755 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 4756
3e181dda 4757* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 4758
8a05c252
CL
4759* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4760
6055173a
JM
4761* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4762 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4763 for which the C library was built.
4764
b125d3e5
JM
4765* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4766 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4767 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4768 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4769 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4770 in the following circumstances:
4771
4772 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4773
4774 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4775 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4776
d4f66d37
JM
4777* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4778 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4779
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CD
4780* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4781 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 4782
ffb89e53
AO
4783* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4784
5d29ccce
SP
4785* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4786 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4787
8b7d57cd 4788* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
4789
4790* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 4791
fd712ef3 4792* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 4793
c688b419
JM
4794* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4795 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4796 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4797 disable some of those declarations.
4798
7011c262 4799* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
4800 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4801 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
4802
4803* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4804 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
4805
4806* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4807 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4808 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4809 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4810 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4811 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4812 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4813 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4814 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4815 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4816 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4817 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4818 require recompilation.
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4819\f
4820Version 2.18
4821
4822* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4823
17db6e8d 4824 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
4825 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4826 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
4827 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4828 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4829 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4830 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4831 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4832 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4833 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4834 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4835 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4836 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4837 15755, 15759.
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4838
4839* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4840 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4841 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4842 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4843 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4844 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 4845
5b535ac4
AS
4846* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4847 #15078).
4848
1cef1b19
AS
4849* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4850 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 4851
55e4107b
SP
4852* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4853 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4854 destructor calls to glibc.
4855
e5c74c63
SP
4856* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4857 output.
4858
4859* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4860 non-x86 architectures.
4861
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JM
4862* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4863
4864* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4865
4866* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4867 Richard Henderson.
4868
4869* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4870
4871* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4872 Richard Henderson.
4873
4874* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4875 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4876
8cfdb7e0
SP
4877* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4878
57267616
TS
4879* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4880 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 4881
c204ab28
SP
4882* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4883 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 4884
0748546f
PE
4885* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4886 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4887 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4888
61dd6208
SP
4889* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4890 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4891 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
4892
4893* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4894 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4895 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4896 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4897 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
4898
4899* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4900 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4901
4902* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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4903\f
4904Version 2.17
4905
4906* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4907
80ceeaee 4908 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
4909 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4910 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4911 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4912 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4913 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4914 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4915 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4916 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4917 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4918 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4919 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4920 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4921 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4922 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 4923
95b4f1b6
SE
4924* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4925
14bc93a9
JL
4926* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4927 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 4928
b54eb3cb
JM
4929* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4930 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4931
7e2bd01f
MS
4932* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4933
08f43f9b
AK
4934* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4935 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4936 zEnterprise z196.
4937 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4938
84b3fd84
FW
4939* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4940 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4941 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4942
815e6fa3
GB
4943* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4944 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4945
400726de
MK
4946* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4947 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4948
7aab07e4 4949* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 4950 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 4951
15d0da8c
WS
4952* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4953 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4954
3cc3ef96
RM
4955* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4956 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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4957 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4958 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 4959
b54eb3cb
JM
4960* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4961 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4962
85429b1a 4963* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 4964 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
4965 default.
4966
b54eb3cb
JM
4967* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4968 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4969 information in --help and --version output.
4970
050af9c4
SP
4971* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4972 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4973 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4974
89a3ad0b
AO
4975* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4976 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4977 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4978 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4979 when the mode is enabled.
4980
6e6249d0
RM
4981* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4982 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4983 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4984 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4985 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4986 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4987 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 4988
d9286582
NK
4989* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4990 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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UD
4991\f
4992Version 2.16
4993
4994* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4995
a8133e19
JM
4996 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4997 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4998 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4999 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5000 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5001 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5002 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5003 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5004 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5005 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5006 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5007 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5008 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5009 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5010 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5011 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5012 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5013 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5014 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5015 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5016 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5017 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5018 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 5019
a086b4d6
L
5020* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5021 configuring glibc with:
5022 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 5023 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
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L
5024 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5025
380d7e87
UD
5026* ISO C11 support:
5027
5028 + define static_assert
5029
5030 + do not declare gets
5031
5032 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5033
5034 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5035 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5036 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5037 implementation.
8d44e150 5038
74033a25 5039 + timespec_get added
544563c9
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5040
5041 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 5042
ac097f5c
UD
5043 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5044
16dd419d
UD
5045 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5046
9dc4e1fb 5047* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
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5048
5049* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
5050
5051* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5052 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
5053
5054* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5055 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
5056
5057* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5058 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5059 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5060 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5061 existing applications.
ffb7875d 5062
21708942 5063* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
5064 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5065 before 2.6.
83678f76 5066
edb00e4d
RH
5067* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5068 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5069 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5070
83678f76 5071* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
5072
5073* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5074 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5075 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5076 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5077 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
5078
5079* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5080
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
5081* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5082 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
5083
5084* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5085
5086* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5087 without a previously built glibc.
5088
5089* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5090 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5091
5092* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5093 now supported for ARM processors.
5094
5095* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5096 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5097 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5098
5099* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
5100
5101* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5102 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5103 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5104 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
5105
5106* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5107 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5108 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5109 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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5110
5111* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5112 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5113 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5114 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5115 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5116
5117* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5118 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5119 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5120 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 5121\f
e80fab37 5122Version 2.15
11988f8f 5123
c0244a9d
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5124* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5125
aebae053
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5126 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5127 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5128 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5129 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5130 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5131 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5132 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 5133
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5134* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5135 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
5136
5137* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5138 and support for initgroups lookups.
5139 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
5140
5141* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5142 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
5143
5144* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5145 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 5146
fc2ee42a
LD
5147* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5148 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 5149 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 5150
d42964a0 5151* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
5152 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5153
1d3e4b61
UD
5154* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5155 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
5156 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5157
c55fbd1e
UD
5158* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5159 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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5160
5161* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5162 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
UD
5163
5164* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5165 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
UD
5166
5167* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5168 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
UD
5169
5170* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5171 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5172
5173* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5174 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
UD
5175
5176* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
UD
5177
5178* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5179 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 5180
f0b264f1
AZ
5181* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5182 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 5183
6b64057b 5184* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 5185\f
dded88cd 5186Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 5187
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5188* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5189
553149f6 5190 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 5191 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 5192 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 5193 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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5195 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5196 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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5197 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5198 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 5199 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 5200
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5201* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5202 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5203 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 5204 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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5205
5206 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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5207 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5208 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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5209 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5210
c6489db3 5211* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 5212 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 5213
72d1dddb 5214* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 5215 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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5217* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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5219* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5220 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5221
5222* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5223 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5224 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5225 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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5228
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5230
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5231 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5232 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5233 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5234 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5235 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 5236
10b3bedc 5237* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 5238
ac2b484c 5239* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 5240
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5241* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5242 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 5243 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5245Version 2.12
5246
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5248
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5249 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5250 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5251 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5252 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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5253 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5254 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5255 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 5256 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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5258* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 5259
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5260* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5261
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5262* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5263
5264* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5265 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5266 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5267
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5268* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5269 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5270 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5271 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5272 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5273
d36b9613 5274* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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5277
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5278* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5279
5280 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5281 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5282 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5283 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5284 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5285 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5286
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5287* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5288 mkostemps64
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5289 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5290
24ab9c76 5291* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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5292 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5293
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5294* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5295 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5296
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5297* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5298
0122f28e 5299* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 5300 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 5301 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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5303
9d36a6c4 5304 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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5305 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5306
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5307* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5308 strstr, strcasestr.
5309 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5310
5311* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5312 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5313
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5314* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5315 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5316
5317* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5318 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5319
5320* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5321 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5322 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5323 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5324 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5325 necessity is every process again.
5326 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5327
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5328* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5329 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5330
5331* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5332 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5333
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5334* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5335 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5336 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5337
9dd5b8a1 5338* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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5341
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5342* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5343
5344 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5345 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5346 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5347 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5348 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5349
bb066545 5350* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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5351 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5352
425ce2ed 5353* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 5354 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 5355
1fdd89a7 5356* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 5357 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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5359* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5360 now in POSIX.
77db439e 5361
1f04d005 5362* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 5363 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 5364
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5365* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5366 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5367
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5368* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5369 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5370
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5371* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5372 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5373
5374* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5375 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5376 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5377
735be400 5378* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 5379
84aa52d7 5380* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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5381 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5382
5383* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5384 and extend existing format specifiers.
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5385 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5386
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5387* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5388 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5389
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5390* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5391 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5392 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5393 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5394 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5395 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5397Version 2.9
5398
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5399* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5400
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5401 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5402 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5403 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5404 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5405 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
d36b9613 5406
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5408 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5409
5410* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5411 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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5412
5413* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5414 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5415
5416* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5417 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5418 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5419
5420* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5421 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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5424
5425* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 5426 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5428* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5429 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5430 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5431 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5432
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5433* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5434 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5436* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5437 Sinhala)
48b22986 5438 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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5439
5440* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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5442Version 2.8
5443
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5444* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5445
5446 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5447 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5448 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5449 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5450 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5451 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5452 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5453
e038616f 5454* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 5455
77751669 5456* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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5457
5458* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5459 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5460
5461* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5462
5463* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5464 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5465
5466* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5467 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5468
5469* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5470 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5471 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5472
5473* Faster memset for x86-64.
5474 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5475
5476* Faster memcpy on x86.
5477 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5478
5479* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5480 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5482* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 5483 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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5485Version 2.7
5486
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5487* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5488
5489 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5490 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5491 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5492 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5493 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5494
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5495* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5496 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5497
5498* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5499
5500* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5501 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5502 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5503
5504* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5505 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5506
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5508 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5509
5510* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5511
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5512* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5513 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5514
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5515* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5516 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5517
5518* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5519 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5520
5521* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5522
5523* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5524 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5526* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5527 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5528 yo_NG.
5529
5530+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5531 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5535* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5536
5537 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5538 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5539 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5540 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5541 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5542 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5543 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5544 4702, 4858
5545
bce20b9a 5546* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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5549
b21fa963 5550* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5553
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5554* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5555
5556 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5557 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5558 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5559 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5560 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5561 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5562 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5563 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5564 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5565
3af48b5b 5566* For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
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5567 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5568 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5570* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5571 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5572
871b9158 5573* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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5574
5575* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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5577* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5578 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5579 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 5580 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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5581 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5582
07bfff20 5583* Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
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5584 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5585 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5586 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5587
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5588* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5589 Ulrich Drepper.
5590
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5591* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5592
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5593* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5594 Ulrich Drepper.
5595
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5596* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5597
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5598* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5599 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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5602
5603* More overflow detection functions.
5604
5605* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5606 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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5608 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5609 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5610 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5611 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5612 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5613 by Masahide Washizawa.
5614
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5615* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5616 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5618* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5619 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5620 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5621 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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5623* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5624 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5625
5626* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5627
5628* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5629 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5630 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5631
5632* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5633 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5634
5635* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5636 for compatibility with some other systems.
5637
5638* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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5640Version 2.3.6
5641
5642* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5643
5644 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5645 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5646 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5647 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5648 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5649 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5650
5a82c748 5651 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5652
5653* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5654
5655* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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5657Version 2.3.5
5658
5659* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5660
5661 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5662 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5663 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5664 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5665
5a82c748 5666 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5668Version 2.3.4
5669
5670* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5671 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5672
5673* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5674 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5675 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5676
5677* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5678 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5679
0325dd20 5680* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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5681 efficiently.
5682 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5683
5684* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5685 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5686 handling data.
5687
5688* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5689 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 5690 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5691
5692* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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5693 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5694
5695* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5696 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5697 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5698 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5699
5700* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5701 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5702 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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5703 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5704
5705* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5706 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5707 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5708 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5709 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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5711Version 2.3.3
5712
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5713* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5714 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5715
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5716* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5717 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 5718
69be6aaf 5719* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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5720 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5721
5722* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5723 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5724
5725* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5726 by Roland McGrath.
5727
c5af724c 5728* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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5729 and Ulrich Drepper.
5730
5731* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5732 RFC 3484.
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5734Version 2.3.2
5735
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5736* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5737 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5738 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5739 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5740 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5741 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5742 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5743 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5744 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5745
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5746* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5747 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5748 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5749
5750* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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5751
5752* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5753 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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5755* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5756 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5757
52a16e58 5758* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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5760* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5761 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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5762
5763* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5764 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5765 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5766 of weak definition in ld.so.
5767
5768* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5769 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5770
5771* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5772 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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5776* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5777 charsets.
5778
5779* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5780 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 5781
bb0ec5bd 5782* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 5783 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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5784
5785* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5786 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 5787
bb0ec5bd 5788* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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5789 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5790 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5791
5792* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5793 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 5794
bb0ec5bd 5795* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 5796 implementation of regex.
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5797
5798* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5799 Unicode 3.2.
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5801* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5802 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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5804* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5805 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5806 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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5807
5808* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 5809 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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5810
5811* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5812 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5813 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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5814
5815* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5816 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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5817
5818* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5819 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5820 and Ulrich Drepper.
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5821
5822* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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5824Version 2.2.6
5825
5826* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5827 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5828
5829* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5830 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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5832Version 2.2.5
5833
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5834* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5835 128-bit long double format.
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5837* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5838 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 5839
ad2e4f18 5840* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 5841
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5842* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5843
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5844* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5845 as well.
5846
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5847* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5848 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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5849
5850* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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5852Version 2.2.4
5853
2995f70e 5854* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 5855 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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5856
5857* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5858 support Unicode 3.1.
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5859
5860* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5861 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 5862
69d5f925 5863* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 5864
69d5f925 5865* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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5866 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5867 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5868
5869* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5870 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5871
5872* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5873 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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5874
5875* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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5877Version 2.2.3
5878
1746f2b0 5879* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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5880 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5881 in float, double, and long double format.
5882
f128331c 5883* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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5884 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5885 128-bit long double format.
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5887* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5888 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5889 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5890 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5891
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5892* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5893 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5894 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5895
5896* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5897 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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5898
5899* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5900 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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5902* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5903 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5904 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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5905
5906* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5907 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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5909* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5910 of functions for Linux/x86.
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5912* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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5914Version 2.2.2
5915
464d97ec 5916* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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5917 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5918 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5919 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5920 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5921 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5922 other headers.
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5924* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5925 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5926
5927* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5928 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5929 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5930 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5931
5932* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5933 locales. While
5934
5935 locale -a
5936
5937 only lists the names of the supported locales
5938
5939 locale -a --verbose
5940
5941 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5942 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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5945
5946* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5947 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5948 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5949 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5950 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5951
5952 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5953
5954 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5955
5956 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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5957
5958* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5959 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5960 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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5962* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5963 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5964
5965* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5966 changed from the default "C" locale.
5967
5968* The usual bug fixes.
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5971
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5972* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5973 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5974 is in progress.
5975
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5976* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5977
793bd4d9 5978* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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5980 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5981 obviously requires a database library being available.
5982
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5983* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5984
abbffdf9 5985* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5987* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5988 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5989
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5990* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5991
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5992* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5993 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5994 and Mark Kettenis.
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5995
5996 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5997 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5998 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 5999
a00c3ca9 6000 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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6001 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6002
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6003* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6004 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6005 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6006
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6007* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6008 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6009 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6010 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6011
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6012 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6013 structures for the wide character tables.
6014
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6015* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6016
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6017* The utmp daemon has been removed.
6018
6019* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6020
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6021* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6022 and Yutaka Niibe.
6023
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6024* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6025
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6026* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6027
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6028* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6029
6030* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6031
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6032* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6033
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6034* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6035 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6036 implemented for Linux.
6037
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6038* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6039 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6040 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6041 versions.
6042
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6043* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6044 Masahide Washizawa.
6045
8f3f1e09 6046* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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6048Version 2.1.3
6049
6050* bug fixes
6051
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6053Version 2.1.2
6054
6055* bug fixes
6056
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6058Version 2.1.1
6059
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6060* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6061
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6062* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6063
407d26b7 6064* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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6065
6066* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6067
407d26b7 6068* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 6069
407d26b7 6070* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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6071
6072* Update timezone data files.
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6074* lots of charmaps corrections
6075
6076* some new locale definitions and charmaps
6077
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6080
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6081* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6082 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6083 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6084 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6085 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6086 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6087
c84142e8 6088* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 6089 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 6090
1fb05e3d 6091* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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6093
6094* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
6095 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
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cbdee279 6097* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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6098
6099* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 6100 numbers.
377a515b 6101
cbdee279 6102* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
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6105 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 6106
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6108 library.
6109
e61abf83 6110* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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6111 functions from ISO C 9X.
6112
6113* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6114 real valued functions.
e61abf83 6115
a5a0310d 6116* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 6117
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6119
6120* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 6121
440d13e2 6122* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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6124* Optimized string functions have been added.
6125
6126* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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6128* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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6130* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6131 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6132
6133 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6134 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6135
0dee6738 6136 user system wall
48244d09 6137
0dee6738 6138 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 6139
0dee6738 6140 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 6141
0dee6738 6142 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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6144 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6145
6146 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6147
6148 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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6151 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 6152 horribly slow.
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6154 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6155 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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6157* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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6159* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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6160
6161* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6162 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6163
6164* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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6166* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6167 Bambrough.
6168
6169* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6170 latest draft standards.
6171
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6173
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6175~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 6176addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 6177alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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6178argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6179argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6180argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6181argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6182argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6183argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6184argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6185argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6186argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6187argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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6188authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6189authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6190authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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6191backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6192backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6193backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6194cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
6195cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6196cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6197cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6198cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6199cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6200capget NEW: kernel
6201capset NEW: kernel
6202carg NEW: ISO C 9x
6203cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
6204cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
6205casin NEW: ISO C 9x
6206casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6207casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6208casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6209casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6210casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6211catan NEW: ISO C 9x
6212catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6213catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6214catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6215catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6216catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6219ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6220ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6221ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6222ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6223ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6224cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
6225cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
6226cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
6227cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
6228cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6229cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6230clearerr_locked REMOVED
6231clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6232clog NEW: ISO C 9x
6233clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6234clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6235clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6236clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
6237clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
6238conj NEW: ISO C 9x
6239conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
6240conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
6241cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
6242cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
6243cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
6244cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
6245cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6246cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6247creal NEW: ISO C 9x
6248crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6249creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6250creat64 NEW: LFS
6251csin NEW: ISO C 9x
6252csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6253csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6254csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6255csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6256csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6257csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
6258csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6259csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6260ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
6261ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6262ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6263ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6264ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6265ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6266des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6267ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6268endutxent NEW: Unix98
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6269exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6270exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6271exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6272exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6273exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6274exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6275fattach NEW: STREAMS
6276fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6277fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
6278fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
6279fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
6280feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6281fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6282fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6283fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6284feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6285feof_locked REMOVED
6286feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6287ferror_locked REMOVED
6288fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6289fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6290fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6291fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6292feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6293fflush_locked REMOVED
6294ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
6295ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
6296fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
6297fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6298fileno_locked REMOVED
6299fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6300fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6301fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6302fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6303fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6304fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6305fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6306fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6307fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 6308fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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6309fopen64 NEW: LFS
6310fputc_locked REMOVED
6311fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6312fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6313freopen64 NEW: LFS
6314fseeko NEW: Unix98
6315fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
6316fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
6317fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6318fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
6319ftello NEW: Unix98
6320ftello64 NEW: LFS
6321ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6322ftw64 NEW: LFS
6323fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6324gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6325gamma_r REMOVED
6326gammaf_r REMOVED
6327gammal_r REMOVED
6328getchar_locked REMOVED
6329getdate NEW: Unix98
6330getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6331getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6332getmsg NEW: STREAMS
6333getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 6334getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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6335getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6336getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6337getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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6338getutxent NEW: Unix98
6339getutxid NEW: Unix98
6340getutxline NEW: Unix98
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6341glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6342globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6343gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6344gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6345grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 6346host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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6347iconv NEW: iconv
6348iconv_close NEW: iconv
6349iconv_open NEW: iconv
6350if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6351if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6352if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6353if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6354in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6355in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6356inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6357isastream NEW: STREAMS
6358iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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6359key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6360key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6361key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6362key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6363key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6364key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6365key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6366key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6367key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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6368llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6369llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6370llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6371llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6372llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6373llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6374log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6375log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6376log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6377lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6378lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6379lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6380lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6381lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6382lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6383lseek64 NEW: LFS
6384makecontext NEW: Unix98
6385mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6386mmap64 NEW: LFS
6387moncontrol REMOVED
6388modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6389nan NEW: ISO C 9x
6390nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6391nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6392nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6393nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6394nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6395netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6396netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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6397nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6398nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6399nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6400nftw NEW: Unix98
6401nftw64 NEW: LFS
6402open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 6403passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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6404pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
6405pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6406pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6407pread NEW: Unix98
6408pread64 NEW: LFS
6409printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6410printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6411profil_counter REMOVED
6412pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6413pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6414ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6415ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6416putc_locked REMOVED
6417putchar_locked REMOVED
6418putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6419putmsg NEW: STREAMS
6420putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 6421pututxline NEW: Unix98
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6422pwrite NEW: Unix98
6423pwrite64 NEW: LFS
6424readdir64 NEW: LFS
6425readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6426remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6427remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6428remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6429round NEW: ISO C 9x
6430roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6431roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6432rtime NEW: GNU ext.
6433scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6434scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6435scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6436scandir64 NEW: LFS
6437sendfile NEW: kernel
6438setcontext NEW: Unix98
6439setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 6440setutxent NEW: Unix98
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6441sighold NEW: Unix98
6442sigignore NEW: Unix98
6443sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6444sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6445sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6446sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6447sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6448sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6449sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6450sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6451statfs64 NEW: LFS
6452statvfs NEW: Unix98
6453statvfs64 NEW: LFS
6454strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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6455strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6456strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6457strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
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6459svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6460svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6461swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6462tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6463tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6464tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6465tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6466tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6467tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
6468trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
6469truncate64 NEW: LFS
6470truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6471truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6472umount2 NEW: kernel
6473unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 6474updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 6475user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6476utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 6477versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 6478versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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6479waitid NEW: Unix98
6480wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6481wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6482wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6483wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6484wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6485wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6486wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6487wcswcs NEW: Unix98
6488wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6489wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6490write_profiling REMOVED
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6492xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6493xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6494xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6495xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6496xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6497xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6498xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6499xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6500xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6501xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6502xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6503xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 6504xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 6505xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
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6508Version 2.0.6
6509
6510* more bug fixes
6511
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6513Version 2.0.5
6514
6515* more bug fixes
6516
6517* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6518
6519* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6520
6521* rewrite of cbrt function
6522
6523* update of timezone data
6524\f
6525Version 2.0.4
6526
6527* more bug fixes
6528\f
6529Version 2.0.3
6530
6531* more bug fixes
c84142e8 6532\f
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6534
6535* more bug fixes
6536
6537* add atoll function
6538
6539* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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6541* fix math functions
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6543Version 2.0.1
6544
6545* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6546
6547* dynamic loader preserves all registers
6548
6549* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6550 the ELF dynamic loader.
6551
6552* support for parallel builds is improved
6553\f
40a4b79f 6554Version 2.0
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6556* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6557 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6558 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
6559
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6560* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6561 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6562 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6563 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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6564 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6565 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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6566 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6567 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6568 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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6569 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6570 files in the ELF format.
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6571
6572* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6573 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6574
6575* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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6576 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6577 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6578 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6579 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6580 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6581 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6582 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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6583 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6584 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6585 about dynamically linked binaries.
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6587* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6588 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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6589 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6590 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6591 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 6592
f7eac6eb 6593* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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6595 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6596 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6597 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6598
6599* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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6602 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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6603 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6604 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6605 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6606 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6607 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6608 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6609 NSS services available.
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6611* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6612 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6613 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6614
6615* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6616 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6617 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6618
6619* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6620 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6621 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6622 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6623
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6625 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6626 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6627
6628* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6629 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6630 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6631
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6633 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6634
f7eac6eb 6635* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 6636 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 6637 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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6639
6640* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6641 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6642 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 6643
71733723 6644* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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6645 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6646 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6647 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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6648 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6649 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 6650 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 6651 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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6652
6653* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6654 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6655 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6656 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6657 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6658 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6659 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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6660
6661* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6662 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6663 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6664 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6665 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6666 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6667
6668* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6669 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6670
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6671* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6672 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6673 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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6675* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6676
6677* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6678 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6679 their use is discouraged.
6680
6681* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6682 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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6684* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6685 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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6686
6687* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6688 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6689
6690* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6691 see <dirent.h>.
6692
6693* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6694 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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6695 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6696 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6697 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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6698
6699* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6700 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6701 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6702 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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6703
6704* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6705 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6706
6707* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6708 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6709 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6710 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6711 number generator.
6712
6713* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6714 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6715
6716* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6717 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6718
71733723 6719* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 6720 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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6721 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6722 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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6724* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6725
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6726* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6727 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6728 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6729
6730* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6731 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 6733* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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6734 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6735 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6736 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6737
6738* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6739 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6740 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6741 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6742 programs already written to use it.)
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6743
6744* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6745 constants.
6746
6747* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6748 with 4.4 BSD.
6749
6750* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6751 a given effective group ID.
6752
6753* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6754 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6755 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6756 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6757
6758* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 6759 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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6760 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6761 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6762 doing the same thing.
6763
6764* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6765 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6766
6767* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 6768 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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6769
6770* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6771
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6772* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6773 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6774 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 6775 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 6776 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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6777
6778* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6779 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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6780
6781* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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6782 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6783 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6784 function.
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6785
6786* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6787
6788* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6789 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6790 strings.
6791
6792* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6793 and writing the utmp file.
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6794
6795* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6796 Thorsten Kukuk.
6797
6798* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6799 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6800 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6801
6802* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6803 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6804
6805* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6806 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6807 specification.
6808
6809* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6810 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6811 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6812 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6813
6814* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6815 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6816 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6817
6818* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6819 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6820 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6821 expression matcher.
6822
6823* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6824 functionality.
6825
6826* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6827 by Ulrich Drepper.
6828
6829* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6830
6831* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6832 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6833 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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6835Version 1.09
6836
6837* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6838
6839* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6840 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6841
6842* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6843 want to put themselves in the background.
6844
6845* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6846 run without an operating system.
6847
6848* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6849 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6850
6851* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6852 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6853
6854* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6855
6856* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6857 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6858 have YP (aka NIS).
6859
6860* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6861 conventions.
6862
6863* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6864 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6865\f
6866Version 1.08
6867
6868* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6869 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6870 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6871
6872* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6873 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6874
6875* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6876 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6877
6878* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6879
6880* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6881
6882* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6883 compatibility.
6884
6885* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6886 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6887 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6888
6889* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6890
6891* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6892 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6893 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6894
6895* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6896 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6897 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6898 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6899 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6900 on a block).
6901
6902* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6903 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6904 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6905 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6906 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6907 cross-compiler.
6908
6909* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6910 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6911\f
6912Version 1.07
6913
6914* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6915 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6916
6917* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6918 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6919 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6920
6921* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6922 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6923 address of the last character written.
6924
6925* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6926 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6927
6928* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6929 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6930
6931* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6932 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6933 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6934 you dereference this pointer.
6935
6936* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6937 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6938
6939* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6940 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6941 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6942 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6943
6944* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6945 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6946 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6947 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6948\f
6949Version 1.06
6950
6951* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6952 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6953 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6954 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 6955 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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6956
6957* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6958
6959* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6960
6961* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6962 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6963
6964* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6965 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6966
6967* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6968 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6969
6970* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6971 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6972 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6973 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6974 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6975
6976* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6977 to the error code in `errno'.
6978
6979* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6980 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6981 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6982 malloc'd string.
6983
6984* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6985 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6986 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6987
6988* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6989 uniquely-named temporary file.
6990\f
6991Version 1.05
6992
6993* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6994 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6995 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6996
6997* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6998 characters.
6999
7000* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7001 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7002
7003* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7004\f
7005Version 1.04
7006
7007* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7008 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7009 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7010 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7011
7012* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7013 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7014 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7015
7016* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7017 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7018
7019* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7020 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7021 made itself into a shared library.
7022
7023* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7024 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7025
7026* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7027 with limited length.
7028
7029* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7030
7031* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7032
7033* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7034
7035* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7036 function for traversing a directory tree.
7037
7038* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7039 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7040 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7041 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7042
7043* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7044 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7045
7046* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7047
7048* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7049 things to your strings.
7050
7051* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7052
7053* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7054 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7055 supporting those systems.
7056
7057* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7058 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7059 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7060 configuration files.
7061
7062* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7063 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7064
7065* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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7066 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7067 in <strings.h>.)
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7068
7069* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7070 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7071 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7072 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7073 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7074 required storage is not available.
7075
7076* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7077 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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7078
7079* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7080 latest files released from Berkeley.
7081\f
7082----------------------------------------------------------------------
9fcdec73 7083Copying conditions:
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7084
7085 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
7086 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
7087 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
7088 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
7089
7090 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
7091 of this document, or of portions of it,
7092 under the above conditions, provided also that they
7093 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
7094\f
7095Local variables:
7096version-control: never
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