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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 2.35
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10Major new features:
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12* Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
13 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
14 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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16* Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
17 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
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19* Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
20 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
21 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
22 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
23 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
24 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
25 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
26 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
27 glibc, and must be installed.
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29* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
30 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
31 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
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33 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
34 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
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36 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
37 fMxfmafNx functions.
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39* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
40 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
41 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
42 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
43 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
44 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
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46* <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
47 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
48 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
49 M_SQRT1_2f.
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51* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
52 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
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54* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
55 macro in <tgmath.h>.
56
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57* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
58
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59* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
60 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
61 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
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63* A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
64 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
65 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
66 object dependency cases.
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68* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
69 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
70 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
71 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
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73* ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
74 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
75 return value is only used for its boolean status.
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77* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
78 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
79 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
80 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
81 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
82 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
83 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
84 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
85 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
86 Restartable Sequences.
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88* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
89 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
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91* All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
92 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
93 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
94 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
95 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
96 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
97 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
98 configuration.
99
5f6d8d97 100* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
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101 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
102 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
103 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
104 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
105 huge pages.
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107* The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
108 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
109
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110* The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
111 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
112 address.
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114* Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
115 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
116 ABI is supported:
117
118 - or1k-linux-gnu
119
120 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
121 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
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123* A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
124 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
125 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
126 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
127 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
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129* On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
130 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
131
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132* The functions posix_spawnattr_tcsetpgrp_np and posix_spawnattr_tcgetpgrp_np
133 have been added, enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the
134 controlling terminal in the new process in a race free manner. These
135 functions are GNU extensions.
136
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137Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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139* On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
140 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
141 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
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143* The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
144 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
145
146 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
147 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
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149 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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151* Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
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153* The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
154 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
155 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
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157* The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
158 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
159 catching coredumps and backtraces.
160
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161Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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163 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
164
165Security related changes:
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167 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
168 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
169 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
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171 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
172 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
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174 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
175 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
176 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
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178 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
179 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
180 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
181 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
182 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
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184The following bugs are resolved with this release:
185
186 [The release manager will add the list generated by
187 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
188
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190Version 2.34
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192Major new features:
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194* In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
195 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
196 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
197 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
198 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
199 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
200 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
201 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
202 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
203 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
204 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
205 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
206 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
207 potentially exposing application bugs.
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209* When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
210 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
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211 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
212 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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214* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
215 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
57fb02b2 216 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
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217 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
218 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
219 Arm SVE.
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221* The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
222 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
223 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
224
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225* On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
226 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
227 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
228 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
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230* The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
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232* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
233 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
234 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
235 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
236 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
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238* On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
239 --disable-scv configure option.
240
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241* Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
242 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
243 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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244 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
245 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
246 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
247 version of 5.1.
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249* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
250 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
251 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
252 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
253 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
254 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
255 that directory.
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257* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
258 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
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260* The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
261 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
262 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
263 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
264 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
265 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
266 is currently a GNU extension.
267
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268* On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
269 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
270
60744950 271* The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
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272 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
273 although it is also present in other systems.
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275* The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
276 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
277 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
278 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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280* When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
281 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
282 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
283
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284* The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
285 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
286
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287Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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289* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
290 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
291 instead.
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293* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
294 programs should use the equivalent standard function
295 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
296
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297* The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
298 programs should use the equivalent standard function
299 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
300
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301* The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
302 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
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304* The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
305
306* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
307 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
308 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
309 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
310 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
311 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
312 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
313 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
314 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
315 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
316 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
317
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318* Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
319 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
320 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
321 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
322 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
323 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
324 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
325 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
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327* The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
328 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
cfdaa29f 329 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
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330 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
331 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
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332 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
333 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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335* Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
336 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
337 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
338 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
339 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
340 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
341 upgrade or downgrade process.
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343* The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
344 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
345 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
346
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347* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
348 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
349 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
350 no longer have any effect on malloc.
351
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352* Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
353 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
354 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
355 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
356 this functionality back.
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358* The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
359 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
360 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
361 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
362
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363* The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
364 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
365 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
366 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
367 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
368 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
369 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
370 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
371 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
372
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373Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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375* On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
376 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
377 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
378 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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380Security related changes:
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382 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
383 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
384 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
385 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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387 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
388 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
389 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
390
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391 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
392 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
393 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
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395The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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397 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
398 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
399 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
400 given integer (closefrom)
401 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
402 name containing multi-byte character(s)
403 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
404 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
405 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
406 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
407 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
408 random thread
409 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
410 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
411 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
412 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
413 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
414 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
415 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
416 manual is incorrect
417 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
418 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
419 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
420 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
421 pthread_create and dlopen
422 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
423 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
424 when non-root user changes priority
425 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
426 dlopen
427 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
428 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
429 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
430 ordered correctly
431 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
432 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
433 data.
434 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
435 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
436 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
437 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
438 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
439 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
440 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
441 the right free implementation
442 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
443 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
444 shm_open to pick wrong directory
445 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
446 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
447 protector=all)
448 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
449 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
450 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
451 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
452 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
453 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
454 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
455 uninitialized
456 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
457 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
458 system calls
459 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
460 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
461 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
462 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
463 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
464 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
465 deployments
466 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
467 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
468 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
469 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
470 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
471 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
472 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
473 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
474 is present
475 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
476 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
477 protector=all
478 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
479 information for the current directory
480 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
481 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
482 dl_runtime_resolve_*
483 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
484 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
485 containers
486 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
487 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
488 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
489 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
490 INT_MAX
491 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
492 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
493 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
494 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
495 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
496 tries resolving them lazily
497 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
498 libthread_db
499 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
500 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
501 argument
502 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
503 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
504 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
505 not set ENOMEM
506 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
507 randomization
508 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
509 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
510 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
511 IS_ERR_VALUE
512 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
513 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
514 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
515 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
516 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
517 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
518 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
519 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
520 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
521 with n >= 0x80000000
522 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
523 thread never allocated anything
524 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
525 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
526 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
527 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
528 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
529 on older kernels
530 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
531 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
532 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
533 AMD64 cpus
534 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
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540Major new features:
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543 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
544 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
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547 to change argv[0] string.
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550 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
551 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
552 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
553 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
554 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
555 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
556 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
557 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
558
559* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
560 information and library search path diagnostics.
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563 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
564 larger than fit in an integer.
565
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568* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
569 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
570
571 - rv32imac ilp32
572 - rv32imafdc ilp32
573 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
574
575 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
576 2.28.
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579 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
580 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
581 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
582 fortification.
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587 mallinfo2 instead.
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590 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
591 Instead, the default implementation is used.
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594 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
595 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
596 prlimit.
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599 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
600 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
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603 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
604 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
605 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
606 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
607 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
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610 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
611 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
612 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
613 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
614 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
615 loaded.
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620 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
621 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
622 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
623 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
624 perform any adjustments.
625
626* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
627 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
628 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
629 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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634
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934c48a0 636 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
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638 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
639 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
640
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642 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
643 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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646 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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649 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
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654 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
655 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
656 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
657 AT_EACCESS
658 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
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661 "haswell" platform subdirectory
662 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
663 with GCC
664 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
665 stack-protector=all
666 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
667 cases
668 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
669 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
670 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
671 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
672 changing gnuc version
673 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
674 incorrect
675 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
676 bits
677 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
678 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
679 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
680 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
681 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
682 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
683 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
684 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
685 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
686 too much stack space
687 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
688 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
689 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
690 with optimization.
691 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
692 anymore
693 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
694 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
695 non-FMA4 system
696 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
697 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
698 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
699 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
700 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
701 getaddrinfo
702 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
703 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
704 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
705 fault
706 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
707 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
708 at the end of a memory mapping
709 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
710 by the caller to the kernel
711 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
712 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
713 declarations for __sigsetjmp
714 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
715 monotonic clocks
716 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
717 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
718 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
719 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
720 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
721 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
722 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
723 one element
724 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
725 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
726 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
727 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
728 lazy bound
729 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
730 PI mutexes
731 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
732 not safe
733 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
734 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
735 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
736 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
737 platform
738 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
739 startup code
740 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
741 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
742 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
743 protected
744 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
745 only since 2.31
746 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
747 locked
748 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
749 aligned
750 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
751 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
752 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
753 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
754 detection logic
755 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
756 pclose(3))
757 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
758 setup
759 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
760 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
761 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
762 work
763 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
764 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
765 [27177] dynamic-link:
766 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
767 work
768 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
769 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
770 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
771 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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776Major new features:
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779 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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781
782* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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785 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
786 Three ABIs are supported:
787
788 - arc-linux-gnu
789 - arc-linux-gnuhf
790 - arceb-linux-gnu
791
4d3a77c7 792 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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796 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
797
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801 this option.
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804 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
805 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
806
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809 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
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812 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
813 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
814 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
815 libpthread.
816
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819 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
820 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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822 NULL for an invalid signal number.
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824 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
825 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
826
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829 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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831 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
832 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
833
834 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
835 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
836
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838 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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840 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
841 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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843 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
844 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
845 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
846 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
847 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
848 BTI compatible.
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853 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
854 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
855 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
856 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
857 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
858 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
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861 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
862 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
863 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
864 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
865 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
866 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
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871 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
872 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
873 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
874 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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877 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
878 was not declared in any header file.
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881 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
882 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
883 sigaction functions instead.
884
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886 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
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889 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
890 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
891 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
892 strsignal instead.
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895 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 896 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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898 strerror or strerror_r instead.
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901 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
902 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
903 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
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906 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
907 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
908 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
909 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
910 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
911 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
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914 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
915 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
916 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
917 flavor of secure RPC.)
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920 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
921 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
922 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
923 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
924 object, to enable the hooks.
925
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927 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
928 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
929 LDAP.
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939 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
940 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
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943 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
944 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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946 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
947 expanding ~user has been fixed.
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949 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
950 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
951 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
952 TALOS-2020-1019).
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956 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
957 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
958 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
959 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
960 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
961 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
962 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
963 filtee has constructor
964 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
965 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
966 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
967 character entities for infinity & pi
968 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
969 segfaults in applications
970 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
971 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
972 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
973 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
974 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
975 function with -mlong-double-64
976 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
977 binding
978 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
979 ld.so.cache
980 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
981 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
982 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
983 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
984 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
985 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
986 linker
987 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
988 dynamically loaded dsos
989 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
990 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
991 access
992 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
993 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
994 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
995 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
996 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
997 stale configuration forever
998 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
999 (CVE-2020-10029)
1000 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1001 defaults to PIE
1002 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1003 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1004 (CVE-2020-6096)
1005 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1006 on 32 bit and old kernel
1007 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1008 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1009 Occitan
1010 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1011 amount of sigset_t bytes
1012 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1013 strings
1014 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1015 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1016 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1017 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1018 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1019 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1020 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1021 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1022 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1023 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1024 size_t
1025 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1026 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1027 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1028 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1029 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1030 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1031 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1032 cpu=power9
1033 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1034 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1035 segfault
1036 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1037 exiting detached thread
1038 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1039 for x32
1040 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1041 ERANGE
1042 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1043 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1044 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1045 dependencies in audit mode
1046 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1047 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1048 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1049 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1050 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1051 input
1052 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1053 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1054 preserve r2
1055 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1056 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1057 variables
1058 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1059 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1060 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1061 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1062 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1063 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1064 corruption in memset
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1068
1069Major new features:
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1071* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1072 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1073 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1074 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1075 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1076 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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1078* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1079 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1080 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1081 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1082
69ca4b54 1083* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 1084 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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1085 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1086
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1087* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1088
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1089* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1090 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1091 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1092 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1093 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1094 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1095 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1096 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1097
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1100* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1101 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1102 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1103 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1104 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1105 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
0b8c2f95 1106
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1108 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1109 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1110
1111* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1112 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1113 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1114 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1115
1116* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1117 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1118 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1119 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1120 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1121 made this no longer practical.
1122
1123 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1124 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1125 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1126 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1127 release.)
1128
1129 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1130 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1131 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1132
1133 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1134 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1135 using clock_gettime instead.
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1137* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1138 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1139 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1140 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1141 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1142
1143 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1144 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1145 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1146 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1147
1148 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1149 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1150 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1151 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1152 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1153 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
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1155 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1156 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1157 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1158 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1159 offset API.
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1161* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1162 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1163 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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1166 configurations.
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1169 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1170 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1171 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1172 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
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1175 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1176 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1177 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1178 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1179 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1180 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1181 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1182
1183 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1184 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1185
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1187 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1188 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1189 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1190 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1191 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1192
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1194
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1197 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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1200 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1201 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1202
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1205 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1206 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
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1208 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1209 environment variable during program execution after a security
1210 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1211 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1212 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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1214The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1216 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1217 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1218 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1219 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1220 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1221 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1222 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1223 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1224 linking failure
1225 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1226 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1227 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1228 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1229 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1230 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1231 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1232 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1233 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1234 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1235 7408-2005
1236 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1237 with localedef
1238 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1239 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1240 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1241 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1242 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1243 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1244 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1245 utmp entries
1246 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1247 ABSOLUTE ABI
1248 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1249 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1250 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1251 (stringop-overflow error)
1252 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1253 functions other can lead to crashes
1254 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1255 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1256 unconditionally
1257 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1258 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1259 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1260 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1261 still can fail with an error
1262 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1263 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1264 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1265 initialized correctly
1266 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1267 -frewrite-includes
1268 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1269 value to an unsigned
1270 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1271 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1272 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1273 protection
1274 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1275 ifunc variant.
1276 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1277 al. for Clang++
1278 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1279 (Slovenian)
1280 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1281 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1282 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1283 with -std=c11
1284 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1285 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1286 part
1287 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1288 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1289 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1290 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1291 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1292 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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1295Version 2.30
1296
1297Major new features:
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1299* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1300 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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1301 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1303* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1304 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1306* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1307 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1308 to the callback function.
1309
51ea67d5 1310* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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1312* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1313 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1314 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
1315
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1317
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1318* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1319 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1320 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1321 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1322 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
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1324* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1325 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1326 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1327 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1328 link time reference, is gone.
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1331 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1332 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1333 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1334 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1335 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1336 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1337 the clock choice at initialization time).
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1340 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1341 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1342
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1344
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1345* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1346 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1347 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1348 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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1349 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1350 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1351 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1352 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1353 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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1355* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1356 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1357 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1358 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1359 since glibc 2.17.
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1361* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1362 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1363
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1364* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1365 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1366
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1367* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1368 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1369
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1370* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1371 BIND_NOW flag.
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1373* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1374 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1375 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1376
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1377* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1378 header have been removed.
1379
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1380* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1381 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1382 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1383 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
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1388
1389 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1390 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1392Security related changes:
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1394 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1395 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1396 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1397 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1398 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1399 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1400 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1403 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1404 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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1408 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1409 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1410 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1411 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1412 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1413 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1414 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1415 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1416 invalid input drops valid char
1417 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1418 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1419 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1420 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1421 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1422 malloc.h.
1423 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1424 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1425 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1426 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1427 functions
1428 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1429 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1430 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1431 for long double = double
1432 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1433 long double = double
1434 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1435 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1436 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1437 long timeouts
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1439 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1440 checking for NULL.
1441 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1442 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1443 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1444 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1445 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1446 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1447 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1448 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1449 not the default "nor"
1450 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1451 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1452 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1453 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1454 compiler barriers.
1455 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1456 unnecessary librt dependencies
1457 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1458 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1459 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1460 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1461 unsorted chunk
1462 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1463 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1464 to R_SPARC_H44
1465 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1466 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1467 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1468 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1469 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1470 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1471 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1472 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1473 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1474 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1475 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1476 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1477 was not used
1478 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1479 tests
1480 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1481 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1482 time_t changes
1483 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1484 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1485 kernels and break testing
1486 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1487 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1488 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1489 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1490 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1491 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1492 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1493 -O3 -march=skylake
1494 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1495 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1496 crash
1497 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1498 linked glibc
1499 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1500 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1501 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1502 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1503 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1504 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1505 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1506 always implemented in the same library
1507 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1508 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1509 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1510 testroot
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1515Major new features:
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1518 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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1520* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1521 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1522 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1523 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1524 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1525 configured location.
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1530 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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1533 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1534 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1535 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1536 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1537 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1538 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1539 process actually does not use HTM).
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1542 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1543 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1544 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1545 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1546 of the same name.
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1549 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1550 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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1555 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1556 supported:
1557 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1558 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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1561 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1562 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1563 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1564 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1565 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1566 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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1569 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1570 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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1575 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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1577* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
1578 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1579 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1580 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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1583 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1584 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1585 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1586 structures.
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1588* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
1589 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1590 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1591 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1592 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1593 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1594
1595 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1596 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1597 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1598 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1599 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1600
1601 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1602 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1603 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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1606
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1610 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1611
1612 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1613 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1617 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1618 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1619 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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1622 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1623 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1624 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1625 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1627 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1628 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1629 or command injection issues in applications.
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1633 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1634 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1635 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1636 thousands
1637 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1638 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1639 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1640 --param options)
1641 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1642 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1643 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1644 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1645 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1646 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1647 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1648 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1649 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1650 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1651 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1652 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1653 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1654 pointer argument is non-NULL
1655 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1656 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1657 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1658 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1659 multithreads call popen
1660 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1661 and pthread_create fails.
1662 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1663 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1664 constructor
1665 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1666 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1667 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1668 source tree
1669 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1670 float
1671 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1672 one error
1673 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1674 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1675 linker
1676 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1677 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1678 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1679 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1680 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1681 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1682 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1683 filesystems
1684 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1685 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1686 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1687 functions
1688 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1689 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1690 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1691 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1692 have wrong type
1693 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1694 wrong type
1695 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1696 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1697 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1698 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1699 threads
1700 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1701 start.S
1702 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1703 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1704 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1705 powerpc64le
1706 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1707 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1708 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1709 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1710 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1711 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1712 strftime
1713 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1714 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1715 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1716 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1717 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1718 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1719 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1720 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1721 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1722 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1723 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1724 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1725 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1726 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1727 tcache size
1728 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1729 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1730 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1731 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1732 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1733 (CVE-2018-19591)
1734 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1735 nearest rounding mode
1736 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1737 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1738 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1739 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1740 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1741 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1742 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1743 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1744 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1745 error
1746 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1747 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1748 using GCC 8
1749 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1750 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1751 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1752 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1753 ppc64le
1754 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1755 expected result
1756 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1757 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1758 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1759 sigaltstack
1760 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1761 answers will be rejected)
1762 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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1766
1767Major new features:
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1770 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1771 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1772 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1773 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1774 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1775 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1776 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1777 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1778 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1779 archive or binary locales.
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1782 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1783 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1784 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1785 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1786 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1787 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1788 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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1790 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1791 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1792 validated for i686.
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1795 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1796 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1797 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1798 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1799 field) to indicate such support is required.
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1802 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1803 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1806 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1807
1808 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1809 fMxaddfNx functions.
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1812 fMxsubfNx functions.
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1815 fMxmulfNx functions.
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1817 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1818 fMxdivfNx functions.
1819
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df467d22 1821 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
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1824 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 1826* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
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1830 patches.
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1833 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1834 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1835 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1836 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1837 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1838 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1839 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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1842 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1843 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1844 the fstatat64 function.
1845
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1846* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1847 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1848 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1849 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1850 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1851 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1852 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1853 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1854 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
1855
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1857 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1858 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1859 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1860 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1861 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1862 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1863 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1864 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1865 results in a load failure now.
1866
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1868 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1869 <threads.h>:
1870
1871 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1872 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1873
1874 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1875 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1876
1877 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1878
1879 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1880 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1881
1882 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1883
1884 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
1885
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1887
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1888* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1889 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1890 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1891
1892* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1893 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1894 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1895 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1896 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1897 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1898
1899* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1900 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1901 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1902 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1903 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1904 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1905 (Bug #1190.)
1906
1907* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1908 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1909 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1910 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1911 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1912 further explanation.
1913
1914 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1915 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1916 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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1918* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
1919
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1920* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1921 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1922 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
1923
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1924* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1925 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1926 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1927 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
1928
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1929* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1930 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1931 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1932 for this function instead.
1933
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1934* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1935 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1936 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1937
1938* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1939 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1940 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1941 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
1942
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1943* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1944 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1945 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1946 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1947 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
1948
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1949* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1950 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1951 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1952 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1953 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1954 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1955 such as libgcrypt.
1956
1957* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1958 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1959 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1960 enabled.
1961
1962* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1963 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1964 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1965
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1966* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1967 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1968 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1969 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1970 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1971 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1972
1973 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1974 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1975 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1976 behavior in a future release.
1977
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1979
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1982Security related changes:
1983
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1984 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1985 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1986 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1987 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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1989 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1990 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1991
1992 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1993 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1994 Izbyshev.
1995
1996 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1997 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1998 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1999
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2001
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2002 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2003 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2004 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2005 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2006 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2007 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2008 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2009 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2010 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2011 14651
2012 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2013 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2014 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2015 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2016 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2017 conversion is given
2018 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2019 date
2020 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2021 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2022 scope with -O1 and higher
2023 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2024 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2025 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2026 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2027 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2028 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2029 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2030 horrible machine code)
2031 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2032 last constant.
2033 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2034 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2035 symbols
2036 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2037 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2038 defined
2039 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2040 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2041 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2042 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2043 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2044 fpscr.c'
2045 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2046 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2047 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2048 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2049 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2050 the base address
2051 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2052 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2053 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2054 open_verify
2055 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2056 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2057 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2058 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2059 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2060 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2061 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2062 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2063 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2064 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2065 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2066 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2067 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2068 dlopen
2069 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2070 AT_SECURE=1
2071 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2072 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2073 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2074 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2075 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2076 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2077 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2078 for Spanish with CLDR
2079 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2080 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2081 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2082 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2083 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2084 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2085 es_BO
2086 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2087 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
2088 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2089 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2090 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2091 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2092 dlopen failures
2093 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2094 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2095 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2096 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2097 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2098 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2099 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2100 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2101 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2102 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2103 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2104 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2105 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2106 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2107 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2108 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2109 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2110 makecontext
2111 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2112 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2113 required
2114 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2115 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2116 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2117 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2118 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2119 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2120 disabled
2121 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2122 failure
2123 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2124 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2125 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2126 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2127 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2128 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2129 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2130 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2131 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2132 and libc build with -Os)
2133 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2134 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2135 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2136 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2137 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2138 that changes /etc/passwd
2139 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2140 (CVE-2018-11237)
2141 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2142 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2143 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2144 posix/regcomp.c
2145 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2146 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2147 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2148 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2149 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2150 AT_SECURE
2151 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2152 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2153 parser.c
2154 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2155 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2156 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2157 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2158 directed rounding
2159 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2160 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2161 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2162 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2163 lookup
2164 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2165 interposition
2166 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2167 DSO boundaries.
2168 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2169 <linux/time.h>
2170 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2171 checking
2172 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2173 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2174 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2175 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2176 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2177 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2178 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2179 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2180 processors
2181 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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2184Version 2.27
2185
2186Major new features:
2187
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2188* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2189 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
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2191 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2192 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2193 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2194 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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2195 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2196 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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ac817e08 2198* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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2200 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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2203
4cf82d23 2204* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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2206* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2207 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2208 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2209 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2210 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2211 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2212 from a security and performance perspective.
2213
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2214* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2215 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2216 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2217 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2218
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2220 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2221 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2222 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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2223 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2224
a23aa5b7 2225* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
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2227 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2228 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2229 _Float128.
2230
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2232 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2233 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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4bab0224 2235* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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2237* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2238 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2239 pkey_get.
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2241* The copy_file_range function was added.
2242
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2243* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2244
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2245* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2246 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2247 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
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2250 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2251 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2252 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2253 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2254 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2255 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2256
2257 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2258 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2259 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2260 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2261 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2262 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2263 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2264
2265 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2266 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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2268 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2269 respectively.
2270
2271 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2272 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2273 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2274 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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2275
2276 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2277 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2278 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2279
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2280 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2281 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 2282 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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2284* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2285 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2286 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2287
2288 - rv64imac lp64
2289 - rv64imafdc lp64
2290 - rv64imafdc lp64d
2291
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2292Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2293
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2294* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2295 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 2296 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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2297 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2298 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2299 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2300 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2301 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2302 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2303 fix this.
2304
f1a844ac
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2305* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2306 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2307 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2308
2fc21aaa
FW
2309* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2310 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2311 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2312 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2313 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2314 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2315 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2316 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2317 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2318 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2319 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2320 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2321 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2322 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2323 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2324 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2325 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2326 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2327 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2328 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2329 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2330 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2331 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2332 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2333 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2334 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2335
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2336* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2337 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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2339* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2340 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2341 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2342 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2343 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2344 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2345 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2346
5a80d39d
JM
2347* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2348 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2349 exp10l for these functions instead.
2350
4fa9b3bf
JM
2351* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2352 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2353 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2354
644d3857
JM
2355* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2356 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2357 ignored.
2358
8df5d347
JM
2359* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2360 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2361 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2362 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2363
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2364* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2365 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2366
34eb4157
FW
2367* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2368 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2369
754034c4
JM
2370* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2371 programs.
2372
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AZ
2373* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2374
48a8f832
ZW
2375* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2376 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2377 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2378 instead.
2379
2380 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2381 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2382 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2383 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2384 use, but predates the bits convention.
2385
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2386Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2387
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JB
2388* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2389 subdirectory.
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2390
2391Security related changes:
2392
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2393 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2394 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2395 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2396 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2397 script.)
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2399 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2400 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2401 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2402 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 2403
914c9994
FW
2404 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2405 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2406 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2407 of service.
2408
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AJ
2409 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2410 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
a159b53f
PE
2411 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2412
37ac8e63
FW
2413 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2414 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2415 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2416 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2417
8a0b17e4
FW
2418 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2419 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2420 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2421 Qualys.
2422
3ff3dfa5
FW
2423 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2424 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2425 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2426 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2427 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2428
3e3c904d
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2429 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2430 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2431 current directory.
2432
52a713fd
DL
2433 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2434 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2435 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2436
4590634f
FW
2437 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2438 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2439 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2440
71aa429b
FW
2441 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2442 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2443 small, instead of NULL.
2444
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2445The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2446
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2447 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2448 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2449 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2450 locale
2451 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2452 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2453 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2454 cases
2455 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2456 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2457 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2458 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2459 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2460 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2461 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2462 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2463 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2464 "Bangla"
2465 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2466 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2467 width Latin characters
2468 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2469 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2470 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2471 letters
2472 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2473 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2474 (CVE-2009-5064)
2475 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2476 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2477 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2478 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2479 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2480 if malloc succeeded
2481 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2482 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2483 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2484 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2485 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2486 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2487 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2488 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2489 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2490 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2491 U+309A
2492 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2493 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2494 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2495 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2496 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2497 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2498 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2499 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2500 for Nicaragua
2501 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2502 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2503 are not found.
2504 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2505 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2506 access
2507 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2508 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2509 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2510 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2511 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2512 __regcall calling convention
2513 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2514 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2515 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2516 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2517 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2518 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2519 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2520 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2521 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2522 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2523 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2524 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2525 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2526 locale
2527 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2528 protector=all
2529 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2530 wcwidth
2531 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2532 consistency check failures
2533 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2534 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2535 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2536 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2537 PIE
2538 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2539 locales
2540 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2541 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2542 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2543 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2544 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2545 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2546 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2547 on memory allocation failure
2548 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2549 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2550 the suspect)
2551 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2552 default (i386)
2553 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2554 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2555 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2556 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2557 instead of EAI_NODATA
2558 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2559 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2560 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2561 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2562 implementation
2563 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2564 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2565 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2566 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2567 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2568 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2569 allocation in syscall loops)
2570 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2571 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2572 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2573 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2574 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2575 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2576 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2577 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2578 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2579 occur with -O3
2580 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2581 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2582 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2583 amounts)
2584 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2585 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2586 niu_NZ
2587 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2588 checks
2589 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2590 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2591 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2592 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2593 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2594 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2595 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2596 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2597 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2598 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2599 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2600 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2601 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2602 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2603 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2604 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2605 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2606 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2607 parsing after OOM
2608 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2609 object
2610 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2611 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2612 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
2613 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2614 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2615 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 2616 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
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2617 ppc64le
2618 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2619 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2620 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2621 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2622 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2623 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2624 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2625 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2626 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2627 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2628 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2629 math_force_eval
2630 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2631 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2632 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2633 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2634 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2635 the svid compat wrapper
2636 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2637 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2638 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2639 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2640 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2641 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2642 --verbose.
2643 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2644 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2645 to 2.26
2646 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2647 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2648 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2649 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2650 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2651 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2652 (CVE-2017-15804)
2653 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2654 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2655 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2656 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2657 failure."
2658 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2659 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2660 -m32
2661 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2662 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2663 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2664 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2665 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2666 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2667 inside the ASCII printable range
2668 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2669 -mlong-double-64
2670 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2671 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2672 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2673 Internet
2674 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2675 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2676 backslash
2677 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2678 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2679 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2680 heaps in an arena
2681 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2682 networking interface
2683 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2684 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2685 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2686 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2687 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2688 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2689 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2690 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2691 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2692 order
2693 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2694 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2695 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2696 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2697 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2698 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2699 same as for Croatian
2700 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2701 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2702 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2703 for initial thread"
2704 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2705 SC_SSIZE_MAX
2706 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2707 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2708 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2709 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2710 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2711 (CVE-2017-1000408)
2712 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2713 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2714 modified in case of success
2715 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2716 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2717 success
2718 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2719 stack-protector=all
2720 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2721 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2722 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2723 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2724 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2725 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2726 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2727 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2728 adding it on top
2729 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2730 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2731 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2732 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2733 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2734 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2735 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2736 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2737 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2738 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2739 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2740 elision and tunables
2741 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2742 "invalid" exception
2743 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2744 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2745 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2746 exception
2747 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2748 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2749 power4
2750 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2751 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2752 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2753 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2754 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2755 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2756 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2757 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2758 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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2761Version 2.26
2762
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2763Major new features:
2764
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2765* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2766 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2767 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2768 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2769 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2770 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2771 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2772
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2773* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2774 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 2775 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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2776 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2777 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2778 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2779 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
58557c22 2780
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2781* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2782 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2783 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 2784
2b2ccd0c 2785* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 2786
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2787 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2788 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2789 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 2790
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2791 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2792 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2793 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2794 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2795 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 2796
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2797 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2798 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2799 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 2800
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2801* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2802 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 2803
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2804* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2805 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2806 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2807 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 2808
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2809* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2810 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2811 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2812 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 2813
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2814* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2815 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2816 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2817 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 2818
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2819* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2820 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2821 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 2822
2b2ccd0c 2823* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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2824 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2825 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2826 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 2827
2b2ccd0c 2828 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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2829 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2830 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2831 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2832 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2833
2834 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2835 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2836 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2837 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2838 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2839 interfaces should be used instead.
f819dbea 2840
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2841Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2842
2843* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2844 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2845 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2846 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2847 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2848 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2849 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2850 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2851
2852* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2853 removed.
2854
2855* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 2856 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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2857 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2858 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2859
2860* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2861 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2862 default.
2863
2864 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2865 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2866 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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2867 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2868 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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2869
2870 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2871 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2872 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2873 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2874
2875* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2876 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2877 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2878 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2879
2880* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2881 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 2882
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2883* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2884 exported by accident.
2885
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2886* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2887 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2888 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2889
2890* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2891 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2892 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2893 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2894
2895* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2896
2897* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2898
2899* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2900 free instead.
2901
2902* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2903 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2904
2905* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2906 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2907
2908* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2909 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2910 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2911 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2912 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2913 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2914 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2915 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2916
2917* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2918 synced with the kernel:
2919
2920 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2921 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2922
2923 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2924 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2925 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2926
2927 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2928 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2929
2930Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2931
2932* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2933 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2934 x86-32 and x86-64.)
2935
7e368000 2936* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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2938* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2939 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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2940
2941 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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2942 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2943 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2944 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 2945 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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2947Security related changes:
2948
e14a2772 2949* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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2950 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2951
2952* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2953 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2954
2955* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2956 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2957 (CVE-2010-3192).
2958
2959* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2960 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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2962The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2963
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2964 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2965 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2966 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2967 fields
2968 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2969 (CVE-2010-3192)
2970 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2971 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2972 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2973 ld.bfd is available
2974 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2975 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2976 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2977 x86 and other generic code
2978 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2979 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2980 incorrect
2981 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2982 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2983 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2984 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2985 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2986 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2987 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2988 resolver
2989 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2990 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2991 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2992 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2993 chillu characters
2994 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2995 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2996 receiving data
2997 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2998 whitespace
2999 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3000 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3001 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3002 for Peru
3003 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3004 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3005 failures consistently
3006 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3007 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3008 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3009 frame-pointer on i386
3010 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3011 register
3012 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3013 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3014 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3015 generic c code is used
3016 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3017 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3018 around 4000
3019 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3020 (CVE-2017-12133)
3021 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3022 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3023 with -lieee
3024 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3025 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3026 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3027 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3028 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3029 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3030 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3031 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3032 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3033 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3034 remove()
3035 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3036 checked for errors.
3037 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3038 new posix_spawn implementation
3039 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3040 leads to lower CPU frequency
3041 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3042 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3043 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3044 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3045 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3046 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3047 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3048 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3049 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3050 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3051 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3052 not support gethostbyname4_r
3053 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3054 switching
3055 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3056 arenas
3057 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3058 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3059 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3060 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3061 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3062 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3063 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3064 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3065 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3066 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3067 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3068 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3069 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3070 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3071 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3072 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3073 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3074 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3075 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3076 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3077 retry value
3078 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3079 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3080 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3081 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3082 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3083 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3084 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3085 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3086 [21537] libc:
3087 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3088 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3089 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3090 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3091 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3092 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3093 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3094 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3095 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3096 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3097 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3098 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3099 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3100 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3101 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3102 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3103 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3104 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3105 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3106 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3107 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3108 issue on x86-64
3109 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3110 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3111 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3112 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3113 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3114 construction
3115 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3116 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3117 between_2_3
3118 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3119 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3120 conditions
3121 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3122 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3123 Hindi Locale
3124 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3125 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3126 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3127 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3128 locale
3129 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3130 leading to relocation crash
3131 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3132 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3133 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3134 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3135 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3136 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3137 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3138 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3139 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3140 locale
3141 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3142 locale
3143 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3144 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3145 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3146 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3147 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3148 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3149 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3150 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3151 strings
3152 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3153 protector=all
3154 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3155 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
3156 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3157 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3158 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3159 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3160 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3161 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3162 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3163 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3164 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3165 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3166 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3167 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3168 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3169 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3170 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3171 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3172 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3173 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3174 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3175 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3176 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3177 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3178 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3179 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3180 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3181 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3182 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3183 with unicode 9.0
3184 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3185 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3186 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3187 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3188 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 3189
d5b396c1 3190\f
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3191Version 2.25
3192
48789000
JM
3193* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3194 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3195 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3196 Library.
e720d3d9 3197
bf91be88
JM
3198* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3199 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 3200 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
bf91be88
JM
3201 the GNU C Library.
3202
412cb261
JM
3203* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3204 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3205 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3206 the GNU C Library.
3207
c0307377
ZW
3208* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3209 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3210 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3211 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3212 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3213 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3214 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3215 will not.
3216
3217 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3218 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3219 many years.
3220
dbab6577
ZW
3221* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3222 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3223 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3224
3225 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3226 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3227 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3228 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3229 problem.
3230
ec94343f 3231* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
c0b43536
JM
3232 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3233 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 3234
a292f45a
JM
3235* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3236 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
5b17fd0d
JM
3237 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3238 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3239 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3240 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3241 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3242 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3243 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3244 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3245 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3246 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 3247
d942e95c
JM
3248* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3249
f82a4bdb
JM
3250 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3251
423c2b9d
JM
3252 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3253 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3254 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 3255
55a38f82
JM
3256 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3257 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3258
525f8039
JM
3259 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3260 fminmagf, fminmagl.
3261
1e7c8fcc
JM
3262 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3263
29cb9293 3264 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 3265
cc6a8d74
JM
3266 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3267 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 3268
eaf5ad0b
JM
3269 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3270
eb3c12c7 3271 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 3272 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 3273
f3b904d9
JM
3274* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3275 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3276
cecbc796
NA
3277* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3278 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3279 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3280
ea1bd74d
ZW
3281* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3282 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3283 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3284 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3285 effects of the memory clear).
3286
b0216d3e
JM
3287* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3288 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3289 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3290 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3291
f3b904d9
JM
3292* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3293 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3294 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3295 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3296 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3297 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 3298
92dcaa3e
FW
3299* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3300 have been added.
3301
705a79f8
FW
3302* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3303 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3304 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3305 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3306 as large as several megabytes.
3307
4d728087
FW
3308* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3309 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3310 been removed.
3311
e863cce5
FW
3312* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3313 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3314 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3315 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3316 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3317 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3318 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3319
7ec47a85
FW
3320* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3321 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3322 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3323 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3324
099191b1 3325* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
FW
3326 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3327 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3328 Internet.
3329
bbe989ee
FW
3330* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3331 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3332 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 3333
b76e0659
FW
3334* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3335 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3336 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3337 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3338
3a2a1d2c
FW
3339* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3340 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3341 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3342 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3343 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3344
be728303
FW
3345* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3346 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3347 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3348 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3349 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3350
6815a33d
FW
3351* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3352 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3353 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3354 did not reflect that.
3355
022dfdce
SL
3356* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3357 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3358 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3359 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3360 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3361 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3362 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3363 'gcc/config.gcc'.
3364
23b5cae1
MG
3365* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3366 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3367 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3368 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3369
7715d3ab
SP
3370* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3371 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3372 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3373 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3374
0cea3587
SP
3375* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3376 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3377 guarantees.
3378
3379* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3380 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3381 make state changes.
3382
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3383Security related changes:
3384
fc82b0a2 3385* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4d047efd
FW
3386 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3387 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3388 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 3389 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 3390
fc82b0a2
FW
3391* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3392 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3393 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3394 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3395 (CVE-2015-5180)
3396
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3397The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3398
fdb724f9 3399 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
3400 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3401 protector-all
3402 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3403 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3404 before it started waiting
3405 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3406 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3407 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3408 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3409 wrong type
3410 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3411 library linked with pthread
3412 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3413 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3414 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3415 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3416 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3417 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3418 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3419 when it shouldnt
3420 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3421 not
3422 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3423 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3424 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3425 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3426 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3427 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3428 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3429 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3430 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3431 termination
3432 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3433 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3434 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3435 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3436 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3437 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3438 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3439 causes a segmentation fault
3440 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3441 linking
3442 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3443 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3444 uninitialized GOT
3445 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3446 versions
3447 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3448 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3449 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3450 is always true.
3451 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3452 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3453 modes
3454 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3455 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3456 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3457 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3458 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3459 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3460 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3461 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3462 libpthread.a
3463 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3464 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3465 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3466 _res_hconf
3467 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3468 information.
3469 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3470 penalty
3471 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3472 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3473 cause transition penalty
3474 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3475 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3476 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3477 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3478 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3479 mcount.oS)
3480 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3481 Checking
3482 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3483 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3484 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3485 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3486 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3487 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3488 multi-arch
3489 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3490 (RES_USEBSTRING)
3491 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3492 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3493 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3494 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3495 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3496 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3497 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3498 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3499 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3500 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3501 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3502 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3503 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3504 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3505 glibc
3506 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3507 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3508 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3509 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3510 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3511 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3512 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3513 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3514 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3515 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3516 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3517 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3518 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3519 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3520 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3521 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3522 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3523 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3524 RES_USE_INET6
3525 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3526 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3527 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3528 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3529 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3530 wrong condition
3531 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3532 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3533 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3534 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3535 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3536 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3537 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3538 clang
3539 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3540 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3541 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3542 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3543 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 3544\f
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3545Version 2.24
3546
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3547* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3548 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3549 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3550 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3551 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3552 architectures.
3553
b6ebba70
MF
3554* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3555 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3556 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 3557
7584a3f9
FW
3558* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3559 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3560
b49ab5f4
FW
3561* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3562 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3563 instead of “union wait”.
3564
ced8f893
SG
3565* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3566 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3567 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3568 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3569 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3570 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3571 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3572
2ba3cfa1
FW
3573* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3574 API.
3575
b7a9b7b0
MF
3576* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3577 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3578 drop it.
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RS
3580* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3581 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3582 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3583 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3584 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3585 extensions.
3586
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3587Security related changes:
3588
f5b3338d
FW
3589* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3590 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3591 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3592
4ab2ab03
FW
3593* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3594 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3595 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3596 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 3597
5171f307
FW
3598* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3599 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3600 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3601
bc779a1a
FW
3602* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3603 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3604 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3605
fab38231
FW
3606* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3607 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3608 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3609 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3610
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3611The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3612
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CD
3613 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3614 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3615 of MS-DOS.
3616 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3617 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3618 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3619 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3620 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3621 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3622 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3623 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3624 CLDR data
3625 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3626 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3627 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3628 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3629 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3630 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3631 romanisation
3632 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3633 and +/-
3634 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3635 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3636 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3637 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3638 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3639 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3640 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3641 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3642 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3643 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3644 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3645 all locales
3646 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3647 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3648 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3649 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3650 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3651 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3652 execute
3653 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3654 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3655 -Wsystem-headers
3656 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3657 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3658 Romanian locale data
3659 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3660 symbol
3661 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3662 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3663 language
3664 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3665 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3666 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3667 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3668 machine
3669 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3670 description
3671 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3672 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3673 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3674 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3675 when using RTLD_NEXT
3676 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3677 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3678 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3679 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3680 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3681 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3682 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3683 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3684 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3685 Excavator core
3686 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3687 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3688 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3689 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3690 double range
3691 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3692 part zero incorrect
3693 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3694 equality tests
3695 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3696 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3697 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3698 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3699 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3700 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3701 glibc-2.22
3702 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3703 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3704 'tst-numeric.c'
3705 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3706 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3707 low part
3708 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3709 result
3710 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3711 unaligned stack
3712 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3713 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3714 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3715 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3716 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3717 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3718 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3719 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3720 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3721 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3722 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3723 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3724 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3725 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3726 modes
3727 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3728 server addresses
3729 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3730 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3731 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3732 response to getaddrinfo
3733 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3734 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3735 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3736 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3737 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3738 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3739 sometimes incorrect
3740 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3741 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3742 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3743 record types
3744 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3745 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3746 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3747 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3748 (CVE-2016-3075)
3749 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3750 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3751 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3752 resolving symbols
3753 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3754 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3755 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3756 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3757 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3758 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3759 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3760 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3761 gethosts
3762 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3763 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3764 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3765 (CVE-2016-3706)
3766 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3767 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3768 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3769 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3770 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3771 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3772 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3773 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3774 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3775 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3776 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3777 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3778 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3779 executable
3780 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3781 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3782 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3783 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3784 XPG3
3785 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3786 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3787 (CVE-2016-4429)
3788 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3789 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3790 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3791 AS not supporting AVX512
3792 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3793 sNaN argument
3794 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3795 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3796 argument
3797 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3798 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3799 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3800 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3801 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3802 eax=0x80000001
3803 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3804 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3805 subnormals
3806 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3807 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3808 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3809 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3810 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3811 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3812 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3813 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3814 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3815 input
3816 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3817 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3818 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3819 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3820 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3821 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3822 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3823 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3824 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3825 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3826 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3827 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3828 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3829 double rounding
3830 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3831 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3832 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3833 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3834 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3835 (Only arm/linux)
3836 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3837 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3838 fallbacks
3839 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3840 "invalid" exceptions
3841 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3842 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3843 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3844 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3845 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3846 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3847 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3848 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3849 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 3850\f
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3851Version 2.23
3852
23256f5e
MF
3853* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3854 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3855 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3856 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3857 89, 16061, and 18568.
3858
2359035a
FW
3859* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3860 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3861 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3862 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3863 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3864 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3865 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3866
8b7b7f75
MW
3867* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3868 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3869 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3870
2eecc8af
FW
3871* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3872 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3873 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3874 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3875 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3876 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3877 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3878
a62719ba
FW
3879* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3880 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3881 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3882 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3883 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 3884 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
3885 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3886 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 3887
bc148ca1
MF
3888* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3889 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3890 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3891 independent of the GNU C Library.
3892
1c70b6f1
ZW
3893* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3894 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 3895
eed3e1eb
JM
3896* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3897 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3898 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3899 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3900 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3901 Linux kernel.
3902
1efad39b
SL
3903* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3904 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 3905
d709042a
JM
3906* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3907 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3908 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3909 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3910 defining their own copy.
3911
b08b4218
JM
3912* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3913 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3914 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 3915
8f5e8b01
JM
3916Security related changes:
3917
6400ae6e
FW
3918* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3919 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3920
3921* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3922 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3923 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3924 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3925 (CVE-2015-8777)
3926
3927* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3928 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3929
3930* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3931 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3932
8f5e8b01
JM
3933* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3934 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 3935 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 3936
e9db92d3
CD
3937* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3938 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3939 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3940 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3941 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3942 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3943 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3944 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3945 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3946 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3947 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3948 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3949 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3950
ad372e29 3951The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 3952
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AZ
3953 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3954 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3955 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3956 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3957 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3958 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3959 use `mkstemp'
3960 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3961 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3962 overflow/underflow errors
3963 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3964 overflow/underflow
3965 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3966 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3967 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3968 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3969 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3970 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3971 are not contiguous
3972 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3973 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3974 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3975 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3976 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3977 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3978 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3979 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3980 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3981 all exceptions
3982 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3983 arguments
3984 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3985 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3986 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3987 should include
3988 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3989 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3990 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3991 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3992 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3993 GNU/Linux
3994 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3995 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3996 arguments
3997 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3998 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3999 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4000 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4001 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4002 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4003 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4004 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4005 rounding results
4006 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4007 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4008 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4009 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4010 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4011 fails
4012 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4013 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4014 block boundary
4015 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4016 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4017 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4018 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4019 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4020 4.7?
4021 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4022 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4023 (related to lock elision)
4024 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4025 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4026 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4027 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4028 (CVE-2015-8779)
4029 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4030 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4031 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4032 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4033 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4034 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4035 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4036 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4037 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4038 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4039 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4040 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4041 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4042 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4043 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4044 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4045 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4046 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4047 contains a vector instruction exception.
4048 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4049 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4050 locales
4051 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4052 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4053 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4054 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4055 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4056 missing break ?
4057 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4058 32bit processes
4059 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4060 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4061 infinity
4062 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4063 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4064 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4065 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4066 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4067 be forced unloaded
4068 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4069 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4070 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4071 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4072 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4073 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4074 statically too large
4075 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4076 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4077 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4078 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4079 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4080 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4081 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4082 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4083 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4084 FUTEX_SHARED
4085 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4086 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4087 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4088 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4089 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4090 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4091 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4092 opendir()
4093 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4094 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4095 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4096 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4097 signgam
4098 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4099 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4100 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4101 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4102 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4103 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4104 dependencies
4105 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4106 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4107 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4108 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4109 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4110 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4111 (CVE-2015-8776)
4112 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4113 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4114 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4115 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4116 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4117 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4118 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4119 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4120 contention
4121 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4122 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4123 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4124 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4125 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4126 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4127 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4128 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4129 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4130 rounding modes
4131 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4132 ILP32
4133 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4134 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4135 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4136 threshold
4137 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4138 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4139 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4140 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4141 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4142 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4143 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4144 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4145 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4146 pthread_setaffinity_np
4147 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4148 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4149 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4150 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4151 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4152 prelink
4153 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4154 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4155 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4156 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4157 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4158 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4159 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4160 bits/mathcalls.h
4161 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4162 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4163 for C99-based standards
4164 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4165 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4166 math-only
4167 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4168 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4169 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4170 disabled
4171 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4172 "inexact" exceptions
4173 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4174 arguments
4175 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4176 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4177 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4178 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4179 rules
4180 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4181 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4182 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4183 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4184 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4185 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4186 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4187 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4188 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4189 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4190 from 32bit
4191 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4192 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4193 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4194 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4195 subnormals
4196 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4197 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4198 error on 32-bit architectures
4199 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4200 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4201 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4202 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4203 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4204 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4205 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4206 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4207 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4208 -Os
4209 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4210 CPU's.
4211 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4212 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4213 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4214 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4215 architectures
4216 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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4218Version 2.22
4219
4220* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4221
3df5cd98 4222 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
4223 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4224 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4225 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4226 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4227 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4228 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4229 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4230 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4231 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4232 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4233 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4234 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4235 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4236 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4237 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4238 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4239 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
4240 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4241 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 4242
f7fba805
SL
4243* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4244 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4245
2959eda9
AS
4246* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4247 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4248 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4249 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4250 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4251 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 4252
42261ad7
FW
4253* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4254 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4255 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4256 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4257 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4258
afcd9480
AM
4259* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4260 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4261 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4262
4a4839c9
AO
4263* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4264 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4265 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4266 17998.
4267
b13b96ca
AS
4268* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4269 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4270 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
4271
4272* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
4273 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4274 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
4275 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4276 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
4277 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4278 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 4279 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
4280
4281* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4282 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4283 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4284 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
4285
4286* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4287 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4288 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
4289
4290* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4291 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
4292
4293* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4294 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4295 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4296
a03ba363 4297 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
4298 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4299 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 4300\f
58b930ae
SP
4301Version 2.21
4302
4303* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4304
042e1521 4305 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
4306 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4307 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4308 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4309 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4310 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4311 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4312 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4313 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4314 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4315 17892.
4316
46d54873
FW
4317* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4318 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4319 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4320 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4321 intended.
042e1521
CD
4322
4323* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4324 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4325 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4326 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4327 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4328 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 4329
522e6ee3
CLT
4330* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4331
d3b00f46
AZ
4332* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4333 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 4334 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 4335
8d2c0a59
AZ
4336* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4337 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4338 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4339 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4340 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4341 effects being visible outside transactions.
4342
dc400d7b
RE
4343* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4344 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 4345
0f9dfe04
L
4346* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4347
a39208bd
CD
4348* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4349 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 4350 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
4351 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4352 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 4353
a5357b7c
JL
4354* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4355 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4356
e54db0ea
AM
4357* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4358 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4359 format.
11e3417a 4360
4863355a
JM
4361* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4362 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4363 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4364
a4ecc9eb
JM
4365* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4366 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4367
0d560bbf 4368* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
4369
4370* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4371 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4372 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4373 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
4374
4375* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4376 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
4377
4378* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4379 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4380 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4381 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4382 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4383 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4384 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4385 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4386 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4387 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4388 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4389 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4390 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4391
4392 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4393 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4394 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4395 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4396 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 4397\f
d5b396c1
AM
4398Version 2.20
4399
4400* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4401
6a9350c8
JM
4402 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4403 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4404 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4405 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4406 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4407 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4408 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4409 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4410 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4411 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4412 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4413 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4414 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4415 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4416 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 4417
95ee7fb1
SL
4418* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4419 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4420 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4421 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4422 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 4423 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
4424 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4425 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4426 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4427 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4428
0961f7e1
JL
4429* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4430 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4431 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4432 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4433 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 4434
f940b965
RE
4435* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4436
d0f5b3f8
JM
4437* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4438 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4439
d6fe5e58
JM
4440* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4441 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4442 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4443 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4444 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4445 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4446
464263cc
JM
4447* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4448 from ports.
c941736c
JM
4449
4450* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4451 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4452 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4453 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4454 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4455 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4456 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
4457
4458* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
4459
4460* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4461 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4462 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4463 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4464 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4465 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4466 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
4467
4468* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4469 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4470 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4471 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4472 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
4473
4474* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4475 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4476 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
4477
4478* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4479 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4480 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4481 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
4482
4483* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4484 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4485 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4486 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4487 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4488 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4489 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4490 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
4491
4492* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4493 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4494 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4495 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4496 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4497 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4498 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4499 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4500 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
4501
4502* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4503 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4504 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4505 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4506 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 4507 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
4508
4509* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4510 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4511 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4512 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
4513\f
4514Version 2.19
4515
4516* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4517
fd2f9486
JM
4518 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4519 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4520 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4521 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4522 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4523 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4524 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4525 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4526 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4527 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
4528 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4529 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4530 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4531 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4532 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
4533 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4534 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4535 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 4536
11520a57
CD
4537* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4538 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4539
2fe16229
CD
4540* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4541 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4542 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
4543 extension which uses __block.
4544
303e567a
SP
4545* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4546 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4547 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4548 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4549 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4550
141f3a77
SP
4551* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4552 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4553 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4554 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4555 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
4556
4557* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4558 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4559 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4560 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4561 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
4562
4563* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4564 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4565 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4566
ba0d798c
WN
4567* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4568 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4569 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4570 #15856, #15857).
4571
7cbcdb36
SP
4572* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4573 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4574
82bab04b 4575* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 4576 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 4577
c5f840fd
MB
4578* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4579
3e181dda
CD
4580* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4581 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 4582
3e181dda 4583* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 4584
8a05c252
CL
4585* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4586
6055173a
JM
4587* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4588 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4589 for which the C library was built.
4590
b125d3e5
JM
4591* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4592 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4593 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4594 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4595 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4596 in the following circumstances:
4597
4598 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4599
4600 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4601 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4602
d4f66d37
JM
4603* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4604 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4605
3e181dda
CD
4606* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4607 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 4608
ffb89e53
AO
4609* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4610
5d29ccce
SP
4611* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4612 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4613
8b7d57cd 4614* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
4615
4616* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 4617
fd712ef3 4618* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 4619
c688b419
JM
4620* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4621 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4622 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4623 disable some of those declarations.
4624
7011c262 4625* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
4626 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4627 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
4628
4629* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4630 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
4631
4632* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4633 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4634 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4635 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4636 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4637 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4638 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4639 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4640 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4641 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4642 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4643 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4644 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
4645\f
4646Version 2.18
4647
4648* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4649
17db6e8d 4650 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
4651 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4652 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
4653 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4654 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4655 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4656 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4657 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4658 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4659 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4660 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4661 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4662 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4663 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
4664
4665* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4666 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4667 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4668 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4669 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4670 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 4671
5b535ac4
AS
4672* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4673 #15078).
4674
1cef1b19
AS
4675* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4676 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 4677
55e4107b
SP
4678* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4679 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4680 destructor calls to glibc.
4681
e5c74c63
SP
4682* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4683 output.
4684
4685* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4686 non-x86 architectures.
4687
e7521973
JM
4688* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4689
4690* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4691
4692* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4693 Richard Henderson.
4694
4695* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4696
4697* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4698 Richard Henderson.
4699
4700* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4701 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4702
8cfdb7e0
SP
4703* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4704
57267616
TS
4705* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4706 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 4707
c204ab28
SP
4708* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4709 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 4710
0748546f
PE
4711* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4712 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4713 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4714
61dd6208
SP
4715* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4716 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4717 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
4718
4719* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4720 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4721 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4722 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4723 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
4724
4725* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4726 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4727
4728* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
4729\f
4730Version 2.17
4731
4732* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4733
80ceeaee 4734 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
4735 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4736 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4737 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4738 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4739 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4740 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4741 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4742 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4743 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4744 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4745 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4746 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4747 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4748 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 4749
95b4f1b6
SE
4750* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4751
14bc93a9
JL
4752* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4753 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 4754
b54eb3cb
JM
4755* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4756 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4757
7e2bd01f
MS
4758* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4759
08f43f9b
AK
4760* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4761 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4762 zEnterprise z196.
4763 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4764
84b3fd84
FW
4765* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4766 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4767 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4768
815e6fa3
GB
4769* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4770 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4771
400726de
MK
4772* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4773 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4774
7aab07e4 4775* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 4776 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 4777
15d0da8c
WS
4778* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4779 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4780
3cc3ef96
RM
4781* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4782 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
4783 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4784 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 4785
b54eb3cb
JM
4786* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4787 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4788
85429b1a 4789* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 4790 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
4791 default.
4792
b54eb3cb
JM
4793* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4794 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4795 information in --help and --version output.
4796
050af9c4
SP
4797* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4798 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4799 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4800
89a3ad0b
AO
4801* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4802 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4803 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4804 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4805 when the mode is enabled.
4806
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4807* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4808 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4809 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4810 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4811 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4812 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4813 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 4814
d9286582
NK
4815* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4816 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
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4817\f
4818Version 2.16
4819
4820* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4821
a8133e19
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4822 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4823 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4824 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4825 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4826 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4827 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4828 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4829 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4830 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4831 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4832 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4833 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4834 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4835 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4836 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4837 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4838 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4839 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4840 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4841 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4842 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4843 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4844 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 4845
a086b4d6
L
4846* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4847 configuring glibc with:
4848 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 4849 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
4850 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4851
380d7e87
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4852* ISO C11 support:
4853
4854 + define static_assert
4855
4856 + do not declare gets
4857
4858 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4859
4860 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4861 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4862 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4863 implementation.
8d44e150 4864
74033a25 4865 + timespec_get added
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4866
4867 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 4868
ac097f5c
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4869 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4870
16dd419d
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4871 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4872
9dc4e1fb 4873* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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4874
4875* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
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4876
4877* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4878 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
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4879
4880* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4881 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
4882
4883* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4884 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4885 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4886 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4887 existing applications.
ffb7875d 4888
21708942 4889* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
4890 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4891 before 2.6.
83678f76 4892
edb00e4d
RH
4893* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4894 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4895 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4896
83678f76 4897* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
4898
4899* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4900 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4901 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4902 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4903 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
4904
4905* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4906
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4907* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4908 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
4909
4910* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4911
4912* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4913 without a previously built glibc.
4914
4915* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4916 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4917
4918* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4919 now supported for ARM processors.
4920
4921* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4922 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4923 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4924
4925* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4926
4927* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4928 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4929 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4930 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
4931
4932* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4933 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4934 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4935 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
4936
4937* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4938 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4939 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4940 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4941 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4942
4943* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4944 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4945 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4946 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 4947\f
e80fab37 4948Version 2.15
11988f8f 4949
c0244a9d
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4950* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4951
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4952 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4953 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4954 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4955 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4956 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4957 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4958 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 4959
11988f8f
UD
4960* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4961 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
4962
4963* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4964 and support for initgroups lookups.
4965 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
4966
4967* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4968 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
4969
4970* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4971 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 4972
fc2ee42a
LD
4973* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4974 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 4975 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 4976
d42964a0 4977* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
4978 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4979
1d3e4b61
UD
4980* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4981 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
4982 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4983
c55fbd1e
UD
4984* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4985 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
UD
4986
4987* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4988 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
UD
4989
4990* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4991 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
UD
4992
4993* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4994 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
UD
4995
4996* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4997 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4998
4999* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5000 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
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5001
5002* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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5003
5004* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5005 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 5006
f0b264f1
AZ
5007* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5008 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 5009
6b64057b 5010* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 5011\f
dded88cd 5012Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 5013
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5014* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5015
553149f6 5016 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 5017 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 5018 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 5019 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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5020 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5021 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5022 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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5023 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5024 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 5025 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 5026
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5027* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5028 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5029 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 5030 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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5031
5032 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
a0446976
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5033 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5034 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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5035 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5036
c6489db3 5037* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 5038 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 5039
72d1dddb 5040* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 5041 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
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5042
5043* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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5044
5045* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5046 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
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5047
5048* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5049 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5050 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5051 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
9f94d2ea 5052\f
4828935d
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5053Version 2.13
5054
ac2b484c
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5055* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5056
c30b7ee2
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5057 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5058 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5059 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5060 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5061 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 5062
10b3bedc 5063* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 5064
ac2b484c 5065* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 5066
e9f82e0d
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5067* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5068 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 5069 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4828935d 5070\f
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5071Version 2.12
5072
d36b9613
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5073* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5074
2e0fb521
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5075 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5076 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5077 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5078 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
fc97f36d
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5079 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5080 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5081 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 5082 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
86a4c67f
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5083
5084* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 5085
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5086* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5087
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5088* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5089
5090* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5091 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5092 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5093
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5094* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5095 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5096 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5097 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5098 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5099
d36b9613 5100* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
b50f8e42
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5101\f
5102Version 2.11
5103
d36b9613
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5104* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5105
5106 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5107 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5108 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5109 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5110 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5111 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5112
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5113* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5114 mkostemps64
3d5243d4
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5115 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5116
24ab9c76 5117* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
b50f8e42
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5118 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5119
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5120* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5121 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5122
51a71cf0
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5123* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5124
0122f28e 5125* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 5126 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 5127 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
0122f28e
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5128 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5129
9d36a6c4 5130 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
0122f28e
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5131 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5132
9d36a6c4
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5133* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5134 strstr, strcasestr.
5135 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5136
5137* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5138 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5139
0122f28e
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5140* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5141 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5142
5143* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5144 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5145
5146* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5147 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5148 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5149 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5150 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5151 necessity is every process again.
5152 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5153
9d36a6c4
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5154* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5155 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5156
5157* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5158 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5159
4bc1b896
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5160* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5161 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5162 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5163
9dd5b8a1 5164* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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5165\f
5166Version 2.10
5167
d36b9613
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5168* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5169
5170 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5171 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5172 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5173 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5174 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5175
bb066545 5176* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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5178
425ce2ed 5179* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 5180 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 5181
1fdd89a7 5182* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 5183 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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5185* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5186 now in POSIX.
77db439e 5187
1f04d005 5188* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 5189 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5191* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5192 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5193
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5194* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5195 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5196
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5197* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5198 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5199
5200* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5201 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5202 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5203
735be400 5204* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 5205
84aa52d7 5206* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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5207 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5208
5209* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5210 and extend existing format specifiers.
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5211 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5212
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5213* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5214 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5215
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5216* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5217 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5218 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5219 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5220 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5221 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5223Version 2.9
5224
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5226
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5228 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5229 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5230 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5231 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
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5234 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5235
5236* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5237 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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5239* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5240 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5242* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5243 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5244 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5245
5246* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5247 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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5251* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 5252 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5254* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5255 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5256 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5257 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5258
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5259* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5260 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5262* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5263 Sinhala)
48b22986 5264 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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5266* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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5269
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5270* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5271
5272 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5273 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5274 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5275 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5276 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5277 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5278 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5279
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5284* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5285 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5286
5287* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5288
5289* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5290 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5291
5292* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5293 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5294
5295* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5296 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5297 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5298
5299* Faster memset for x86-64.
5300 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5301
5302* Faster memcpy on x86.
5303 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5304
5305* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5306 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5308* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 5309 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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5312
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5313* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5314
5315 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5316 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5317 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5318 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5319 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5320
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5321* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5322 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5323
5324* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5325
5326* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5327 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5328 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5329
5330* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5331 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5332
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5334 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5335
5336* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5337
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5338* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5339 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5340
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5341* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5342 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5343
5344* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5345 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5346
5347* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5348
5349* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5350 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5352* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5353 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5354 yo_NG.
5355
5356+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5357 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5361* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5362
5363 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5364 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5365 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5366 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5367 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5368 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5369 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5370 4702, 4858
5371
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5374* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5375
b21fa963 5376* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5379
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5380* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5381
5382 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5383 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5384 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5385 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5386 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5387 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5388 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5389 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5390 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5391
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5393 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5394 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5396* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5397 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5398
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5400
5401* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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5403* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5404 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5405 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 5406 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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5407 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5408
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5410 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5411 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5412 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5413
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5414* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5415 Ulrich Drepper.
5416
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5417* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5418
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5419* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5420 Ulrich Drepper.
5421
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5422* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5423
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5424* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5425 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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5427Version 2.4
5428
5429* More overflow detection functions.
5430
5431* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5432 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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5434 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5435 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5436 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5437 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5438 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5439 by Masahide Washizawa.
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5441* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5442 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5444* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5445 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5446 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5447 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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5449* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5450 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5451
5452* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5453
5454* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5455 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5456 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5457
5458* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5459 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5460
5461* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5462 for compatibility with some other systems.
5463
5464* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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5466Version 2.3.6
5467
5468* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5469
5470 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5471 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5472 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5473 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5474 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5475 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5476
5a82c748 5477 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5479* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5480
5481* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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5483Version 2.3.5
5484
5485* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5486
5487 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5488 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5489 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5490 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5491
5a82c748 5492 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5495
5496* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5497 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5499* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5500 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5501 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5502
5503* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5504 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5505
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5507 efficiently.
5508 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5509
5510* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5511 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5512 handling data.
5513
5514* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5515 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 5516 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5518* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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5519 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5520
5521* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5522 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5523 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5524 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5525
5526* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5527 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5528 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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5529 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5530
5531* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5532 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5533 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5534 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5535 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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5537Version 2.3.3
5538
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5539* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5540 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5541
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5542* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5543 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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5547
5548* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5549 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5551* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5552 by Roland McGrath.
5553
c5af724c 5554* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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5555 and Ulrich Drepper.
5556
5557* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5558 RFC 3484.
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5560Version 2.3.2
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5562* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5563 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5564 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5565 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5566 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5567 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5568 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5569 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5570 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5571
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5572* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5573 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5574 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5575
5576* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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5577
5578* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5579 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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5581* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5582 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5583
52a16e58 5584* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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5586* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5587 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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5588
5589* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5590 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5591 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5592 of weak definition in ld.so.
5593
5594* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5595 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5596
5597* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5598 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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5602* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5603 charsets.
5604
5605* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5606 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 5608* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 5609 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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5611* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5612 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 5613
bb0ec5bd 5614* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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5615 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5616 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5618* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5619 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 5620
bb0ec5bd 5621* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 5622 implementation of regex.
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5623
5624* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5625 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 5626
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5627* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5628 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 5629
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5630* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5631 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5632 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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5633
5634* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 5635 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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5636
5637* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5638 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5639 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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5640
5641* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5642 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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5643
5644* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5645 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5646 and Ulrich Drepper.
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5647
5648* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
5649\f
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5650Version 2.2.6
5651
5652* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5653 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5654
5655* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5656 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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5658Version 2.2.5
5659
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5660* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5661 128-bit long double format.
a8ae31c2 5662
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5663* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5664 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 5665
ad2e4f18 5666* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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5668* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5669
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5670* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5671 as well.
5672
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5673* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5674 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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5675
5676* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
7d0c5823 5677\f
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5678Version 2.2.4
5679
2995f70e 5680* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 5681 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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5682
5683* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5684 support Unicode 3.1.
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5685
5686* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5687 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 5688
69d5f925 5689* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 5690
69d5f925 5691* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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5692 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5693 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5694
5695* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5696 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5697
5698* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5699 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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5700
5701* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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5703Version 2.2.3
5704
1746f2b0 5705* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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5706 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5707 in float, double, and long double format.
5708
f128331c 5709* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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5710 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5711 128-bit long double format.
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5713* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5714 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5715 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5716 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5717
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5718* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5719 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5720 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5721
5722* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5723 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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5724
5725* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5726 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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5727
5728* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5729 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5730 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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5731
5732* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5733 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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5734
5735* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5736 of functions for Linux/x86.
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5737
5738* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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5740Version 2.2.2
5741
464d97ec 5742* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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5743 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5744 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5745 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5746 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5747 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5748 other headers.
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5749
5750* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5751 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5752
5753* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5754 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5755 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5756 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5757
5758* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5759 locales. While
5760
5761 locale -a
5762
5763 only lists the names of the supported locales
5764
5765 locale -a --verbose
5766
5767 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5768 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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5770Version 2.2.1
5771
5772* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5773 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5774 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5775 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5776 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5777
5778 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5779
5780 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5781
5782 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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5783
5784* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5785 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5786 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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5787
5788* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5789 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5790
5791* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5792 changed from the default "C" locale.
5793
5794* The usual bug fixes.
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5796Version 2.2
5797
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5798* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5799 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5800 is in progress.
5801
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5802* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5803
793bd4d9 5804* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 5805
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5806 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5807 obviously requires a database library being available.
5808
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5809* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5810
abbffdf9 5811* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 5812
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5813* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5814 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5815
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5816* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5817
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5818* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5819 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5820 and Mark Kettenis.
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5821
5822 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5823 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5824 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 5825
a00c3ca9 5826 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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5827 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5828
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5829* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5830 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5831 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5832
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5833* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5834 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5835 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5836 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5837
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5838 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5839 structures for the wide character tables.
5840
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5841* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5842
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5843* The utmp daemon has been removed.
5844
5845* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5846
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5847* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5848 and Yutaka Niibe.
5849
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5850* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5851
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5852* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5853
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5854* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5855
5856* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5857
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5858* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5859
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5860* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5861 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5862 implemented for Linux.
5863
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5864* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5865 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5866 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5867 versions.
5868
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5869* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5870 Masahide Washizawa.
5871
8f3f1e09 5872* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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5873\f
5874Version 2.1.3
5875
5876* bug fixes
5877
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5878\f
5879Version 2.1.2
5880
5881* bug fixes
5882
28f540f4 5883\f
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5884Version 2.1.1
5885
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5886* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5887
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5888* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5889
407d26b7 5890* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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5891
5892* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5893
407d26b7 5894* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 5895
407d26b7 5896* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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5897
5898* Update timezone data files.
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5900* lots of charmaps corrections
5901
5902* some new locale definitions and charmaps
5903
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5905Version 2.1
5906
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5907* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5908 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5909 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5910 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5911 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5912 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5913
c84142e8 5914* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 5915 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 5916
1fb05e3d 5917* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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5918 symbol level.
5919
5920* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5921 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 5922
cbdee279 5923* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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5924
5925* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 5926 numbers.
377a515b 5927
cbdee279 5928* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 5929
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5930* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5931 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 5932
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5933* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5934 library.
5935
e61abf83 5936* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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5937 functions from ISO C 9X.
5938
5939* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5940 real valued functions.
e61abf83 5941
a5a0310d 5942* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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5944* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5945
5946* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 5947
440d13e2 5948* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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5949
5950* Optimized string functions have been added.
5951
5952* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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5953
5954* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5956* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5957 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5958
5959 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5960 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5961
0dee6738 5962 user system wall
48244d09 5963
0dee6738 5964 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 5965
0dee6738 5966 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 5967
0dee6738 5968 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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5970 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5971
5972 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5973
5974 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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5976 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5977 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 5978 horribly slow.
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5980 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5981 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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5983* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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5984
5985* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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5986
5987* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5988 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5989
5990* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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5992* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5993 Bambrough.
5994
5995* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5996 latest draft standards.
5997
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5998* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5999
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6000* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6001~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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6005argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6006argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6007argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6008argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6009argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6010argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6011argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6012argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6013argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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6014authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6015authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6016authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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6017backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6018backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6019backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6020cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
6021cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6022cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6023cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6024cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6025cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6026capget NEW: kernel
6027capset NEW: kernel
6028carg NEW: ISO C 9x
6029cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
6030cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
6031casin NEW: ISO C 9x
6032casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6033casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6034casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6035casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6036casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6037catan NEW: ISO C 9x
6038catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6039catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6040catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6041catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6042catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6045ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6046ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6047ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6048ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6049ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6050cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
6051cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
6052cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
6053cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
6054cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6055cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6056clearerr_locked REMOVED
6057clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6058clog NEW: ISO C 9x
6059clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6060clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6061clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6062clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
6063clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
6064conj NEW: ISO C 9x
6065conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
6066conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
6067cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
6068cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
6069cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
6070cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
6071cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6072cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6073creal NEW: ISO C 9x
6074crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6075creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6076creat64 NEW: LFS
6077csin NEW: ISO C 9x
6078csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6079csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6080csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6081csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6082csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6083csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
6084csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6085csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6086ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
6087ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6088ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6089ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6090ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6091ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6092des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6093ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6094endutxent NEW: Unix98
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6095exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6096exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6097exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6098exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6099exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6100exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6101fattach NEW: STREAMS
6102fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6103fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
6104fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
6105fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
6106feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6107fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6108fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6109fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6110feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6111feof_locked REMOVED
6112feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6113ferror_locked REMOVED
6114fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6115fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6116fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6117fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6118feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6119fflush_locked REMOVED
6120ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
6121ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
6122fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
6123fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6124fileno_locked REMOVED
6125fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6126fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6127fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6128fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6129fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6130fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6131fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6132fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6133fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 6134fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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6135fopen64 NEW: LFS
6136fputc_locked REMOVED
6137fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6138fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6139freopen64 NEW: LFS
6140fseeko NEW: Unix98
6141fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
6142fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
6143fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6144fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
6145ftello NEW: Unix98
6146ftello64 NEW: LFS
6147ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6148ftw64 NEW: LFS
6149fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6150gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6151gamma_r REMOVED
6152gammaf_r REMOVED
6153gammal_r REMOVED
6154getchar_locked REMOVED
6155getdate NEW: Unix98
6156getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6157getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6158getmsg NEW: STREAMS
6159getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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6161getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6162getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6163getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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6164getutxent NEW: Unix98
6165getutxid NEW: Unix98
6166getutxline NEW: Unix98
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6167glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6168globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6169gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6170gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6171grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 6172host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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6173iconv NEW: iconv
6174iconv_close NEW: iconv
6175iconv_open NEW: iconv
6176if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6177if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6178if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6179if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6180in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6181in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6182inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6183isastream NEW: STREAMS
6184iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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6185key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6186key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6187key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6188key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6189key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6190key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6191key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6192key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6193key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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6194llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6195llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6196llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6197llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6198llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6199llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6200log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6201log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6202log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6203lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6204lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6205lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6206lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6207lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6208lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6209lseek64 NEW: LFS
6210makecontext NEW: Unix98
6211mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6212mmap64 NEW: LFS
6213moncontrol REMOVED
6214modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6215nan NEW: ISO C 9x
6216nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6217nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6218nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6219nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6220nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6221netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6222netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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6223nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6224nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6225nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6226nftw NEW: Unix98
6227nftw64 NEW: LFS
6228open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 6229passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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6230pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
6231pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6232pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6233pread NEW: Unix98
6234pread64 NEW: LFS
6235printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6236printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6237profil_counter REMOVED
6238pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6239pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6240ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6241ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6242putc_locked REMOVED
6243putchar_locked REMOVED
6244putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6245putmsg NEW: STREAMS
6246putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 6247pututxline NEW: Unix98
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6248pwrite NEW: Unix98
6249pwrite64 NEW: LFS
6250readdir64 NEW: LFS
6251readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6252remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6253remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6254remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6255round NEW: ISO C 9x
6256roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6257roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6258rtime NEW: GNU ext.
6259scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6260scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6261scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6262scandir64 NEW: LFS
6263sendfile NEW: kernel
6264setcontext NEW: Unix98
6265setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 6266setutxent NEW: Unix98
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6267sighold NEW: Unix98
6268sigignore NEW: Unix98
6269sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6270sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6271sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6272sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6273sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6274sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6275sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6276sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6277statfs64 NEW: LFS
6278statvfs NEW: Unix98
6279statvfs64 NEW: LFS
6280strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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6281strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6282strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6283strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 6284svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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6285svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6286svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6287swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6288tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6289tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6290tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6291tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6292tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6293tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
6294trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
6295truncate64 NEW: LFS
6296truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6297truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6298umount2 NEW: kernel
6299unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 6300updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 6301user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6302utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 6303versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 6304versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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6305waitid NEW: Unix98
6306wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6307wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6308wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6309wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6310wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6311wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6312wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6313wcswcs NEW: Unix98
6314wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6315wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6316write_profiling REMOVED
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6317xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6318xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6319xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6320xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6321xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6322xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6323xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6324xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6325xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6326xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6327xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6328xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6329xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 6330xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 6331xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 6332~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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6334Version 2.0.6
6335
6336* more bug fixes
6337
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6339Version 2.0.5
6340
6341* more bug fixes
6342
6343* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6344
6345* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6346
6347* rewrite of cbrt function
6348
6349* update of timezone data
6350\f
6351Version 2.0.4
6352
6353* more bug fixes
6354\f
6355Version 2.0.3
6356
6357* more bug fixes
c84142e8 6358\f
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6359Version 2.0.2
6360
6361* more bug fixes
6362
6363* add atoll function
6364
6365* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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6366
6367* fix math functions
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6369Version 2.0.1
6370
6371* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6372
6373* dynamic loader preserves all registers
6374
6375* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6376 the ELF dynamic loader.
6377
6378* support for parallel builds is improved
6379\f
40a4b79f 6380Version 2.0
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6382* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6383 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6384 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
6385
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6386* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6387 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6388 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6389 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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6390 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6391 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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6392 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6393 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6394 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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6395 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6396 files in the ELF format.
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6397
6398* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6399 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6400
6401* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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6402 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6403 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6404 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6405 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6406 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6407 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6408 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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6409 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6410 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6411 about dynamically linked binaries.
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6413* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6414 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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6415 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6416 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6417 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 6418
f7eac6eb 6419* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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6420 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6421 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6422 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6423 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6424
6425* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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6427* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6428 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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6429 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6430 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6431 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6432 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6433 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6434 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6435 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 6436
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6437* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6438 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6439 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6440
6441* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6442 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6443 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6444
6445* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6446 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6447 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6448 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6449
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6450* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6451 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6452 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6453
6454* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6455 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6456 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6457
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6458* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6459 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6460
f7eac6eb 6461* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 6462 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 6463 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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6464 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6465
6466* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6467 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6468 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 6469
71733723 6470* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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6471 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6472 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6473 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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6474 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6475 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 6476 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 6477 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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6478
6479* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6480 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6481 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6482 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6483 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6484 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6485 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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6486
6487* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6488 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6489 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6490 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6491 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6492 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6493
6494* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6495 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6496
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6497* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6498 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6499 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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6501* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6502
6503* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6504 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6505 their use is discouraged.
6506
6507* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6508 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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6510* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6511 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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6512
6513* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6514 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6515
6516* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6517 see <dirent.h>.
6518
6519* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6520 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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6521 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6522 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6523 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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6524
6525* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6526 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6527 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6528 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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6529
6530* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6531 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6532
6533* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6534 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6535 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6536 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6537 number generator.
6538
6539* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6540 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6541
6542* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6543 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6544
71733723 6545* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 6546 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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6547 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6548 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 6549
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6550* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6551
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6552* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6553 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6554 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6555
6556* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6557 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 6559* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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6560 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6561 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6562 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6563
6564* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6565 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6566 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6567 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6568 programs already written to use it.)
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6569
6570* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6571 constants.
6572
6573* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6574 with 4.4 BSD.
6575
6576* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6577 a given effective group ID.
6578
6579* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6580 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6581 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6582 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6583
6584* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 6585 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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6586 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6587 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6588 doing the same thing.
6589
6590* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6591 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6592
6593* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 6594 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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6595
6596* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6597
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6598* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6599 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6600 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 6601 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 6602 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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6603
6604* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6605 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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6606
6607* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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6608 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6609 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6610 function.
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6611
6612* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6613
6614* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6615 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6616 strings.
6617
6618* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6619 and writing the utmp file.
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6620
6621* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6622 Thorsten Kukuk.
6623
6624* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6625 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6626 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6627
6628* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6629 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6630
6631* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6632 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6633 specification.
6634
6635* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6636 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6637 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6638 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6639
6640* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6641 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6642 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6643
6644* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6645 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6646 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6647 expression matcher.
6648
6649* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6650 functionality.
6651
6652* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6653 by Ulrich Drepper.
6654
6655* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6656
6657* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6658 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6659 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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6661Version 1.09
6662
6663* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6664
6665* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6666 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6667
6668* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6669 want to put themselves in the background.
6670
6671* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6672 run without an operating system.
6673
6674* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6675 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6676
6677* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6678 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6679
6680* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6681
6682* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6683 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6684 have YP (aka NIS).
6685
6686* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6687 conventions.
6688
6689* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6690 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6691\f
6692Version 1.08
6693
6694* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6695 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6696 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6697
6698* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6699 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6700
6701* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6702 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6703
6704* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6705
6706* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6707
6708* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6709 compatibility.
6710
6711* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6712 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6713 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6714
6715* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6716
6717* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6718 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6719 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6720
6721* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6722 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6723 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6724 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6725 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6726 on a block).
6727
6728* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6729 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6730 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6731 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6732 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6733 cross-compiler.
6734
6735* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6736 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6737\f
6738Version 1.07
6739
6740* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6741 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6742
6743* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6744 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6745 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6746
6747* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6748 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6749 address of the last character written.
6750
6751* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6752 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6753
6754* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6755 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6756
6757* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6758 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6759 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6760 you dereference this pointer.
6761
6762* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6763 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6764
6765* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6766 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6767 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6768 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6769
6770* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6771 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6772 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6773 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6774\f
6775Version 1.06
6776
6777* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6778 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6779 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6780 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 6781 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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6782
6783* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6784
6785* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6786
6787* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6788 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6789
6790* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6791 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6792
6793* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6794 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6795
6796* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6797 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6798 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6799 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6800 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6801
6802* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6803 to the error code in `errno'.
6804
6805* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6806 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6807 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6808 malloc'd string.
6809
6810* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6811 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6812 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6813
6814* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6815 uniquely-named temporary file.
6816\f
6817Version 1.05
6818
6819* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6820 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6821 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6822
6823* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6824 characters.
6825
6826* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6827 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6828
6829* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6830\f
6831Version 1.04
6832
6833* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6834 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6835 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6836 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6837
6838* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6839 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6840 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6841
6842* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6843 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6844
6845* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6846 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6847 made itself into a shared library.
6848
6849* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6850 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6851
6852* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6853 with limited length.
6854
6855* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6856
6857* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6858
6859* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6860
6861* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6862 function for traversing a directory tree.
6863
6864* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6865 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6866 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6867 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6868
6869* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6870 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6871
6872* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6873
6874* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6875 things to your strings.
6876
6877* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6878
6879* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6880 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6881 supporting those systems.
6882
6883* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6884 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6885 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6886 configuration files.
6887
6888* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6889 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6890
6891* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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6892 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6893 in <strings.h>.)
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6894
6895* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6896 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6897 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6898 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6899 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6900 required storage is not available.
6901
6902* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6903 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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6904
6905* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6906 latest files released from Berkeley.
6907\f
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6910
6911 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
6912 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
6913 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
6914 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
6915
6916 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
6917 of this document, or of portions of it,
6918 under the above conditions, provided also that they
6919 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
6920\f
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