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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
dff8da6b 2Copyright (C) 1992-2024 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 2.39
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10Major new features:
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12* A new tunable, glibc.cpu.plt_rewrite, can be used to enable PLT
13 rewrite on x86-64. When enabled with non-lazy binding, the dynamic
14 linker will rewrite indirect branches in PLT with direct branches.
15
a0cfc48e 16* Sync with Linux kernel 6.6 shadow stack interface. The --enable-cet
feeb7297 17 configure option is only supported on x86-64.
bbfb5493 18
92861d93 19* struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
20 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
21 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
22 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
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24* On Linux, the functions posix_spawnattr_getcgroup_np and
25 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
26 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
27 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
28 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
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30* On Linux, the pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawp functions have been added.
31 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
32 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
33 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
34 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
35 posix_spawn interface.
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37* On Linux, the pidfd_getpid function has been added. It allows retrieving
38 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
39 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
40
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41* scanf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
42 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
43 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
44 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
45 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
46 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
47
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48* A new tunable, glibc.mem.decorate_maps, can be used to add additional
49 information on underlying memory allocated by the glibc (for instance,
50 on thread stack created by pthread_create or memory allocated by
51 malloc).
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53* The <stdbit.h> header has been added from ISO C2X, with
54 stdc_leading_zeros, stdc_leading_ones, stdc_trailing_zeros,
55 stdc_trailing_ones, stdc_first_leading_zero, stdc_first_leading_one,
56 stdc_first_trailing_zero, stdc_first_trailing_one, stdc_count_zeros,
57 stdc_count_ones, stdc_has_single_bit, stdc_bit_width, stdc_bit_floor
58 and stdc_bit_ceil function families, each having functions for
59 unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long int and
60 unsigned long long int, and a type-generic macro.
61
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62* On AArch64 new symbols were added to libmvec and now math.h has
63 annotations to allow GCC 9 or newer to auto-vectorize calls to the
64 following scalar math functions when -ffast-math is specified:
65 acos, acosf, asin, asinf, atan, atanf, atan2, atan2f, cos, cosf,
66 exp, expf, exp10, exp10f, exp2, exp2f, expm1, expm1f, log, logf,
67 log10, log10f, log1p, log1pf, log2, log2f, sin, sinf, tan, tanf.
68
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69Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
70
2aa0974d 71* The ldconfig program now skips file names containing ';' or ending in
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72 ".dpkg.tmp" or ".dpkg.new", to avoid examining temporary files created
73 by the RPM and dpkg package managers.
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75* libcrypt has been removed from the GNU C Library. The configure
76 options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer
77 available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be
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78 installed. For now <unistd.h> continues to declare the crypt
79 function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into
80 existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration
81 is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release.
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83 The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from
84 GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing
85 binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently
86 distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>.
87
88 As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of
89 the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be
90 confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages
91 of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be
92 simplified.
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94* The dynamic linker calls the malloc and free functions in more cases
95 during TLS access if a shared object with dynamic TLS is loaded and
96 unloaded. This can result in an infinite recursion if a malloc
97 replacement library or its dependencies use dynamic TLS instead of
98 initial-exec TLS.
99
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100* The ia64*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
101
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102Changes to build and runtime requirements:
103
cb7954c4 104* Building on LoongArch requires at a minimum binutils 2.41 for vector
105 instructions.
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106
107Security related changes:
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109The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
110found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
111
112 [The release manager will add the list generated by
113 scripts/process-fixed-cves.sh just before the release.]
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115The following bugs are resolved with this release:
116
117 [The release manager will add the list generated by
118 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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120Version 2.38
121
122Major new features:
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124* When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
125 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
126 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
127 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
128 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
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129 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
130 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
131 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
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132 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those
133 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
134 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
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136* PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to
137 <inttypes.h>.
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139* printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
140 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
141 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
142 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
143 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
144 specified in draft ISO C2X.
145
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146* A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
147 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
148
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149* Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
150 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
151
152 - x86_64-gnu
153
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154* Vector math library libmvec support has been added to AArch64. It
155 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
156 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
157 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
158 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
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160* The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
161 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
162
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163* A new configure option, "--enable-fortify-source", can be used to build the
164 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
165 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
166 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
167 original behavior unchanged.
168
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169Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
170
d5e321d1 171* libcrypt is no longer built by default; one may use the "--enable-crypt"
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172 option to build libcrypt. libcrypt is likely to be removed from the
173 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
174 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
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176* In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
177 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
178 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
179 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
180 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
181 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
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653433cd 183* The "--disable-experimental-malloc" option is no longer available. The
36f2487f 184 per-thread cache can still be disabled per-application using tunables
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185 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
186
653433cd 187* The configure option "--enable-tunables" has been removed. The tunable
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188 feature is now always enabled.
189
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190Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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192* Building libmvec on AArch64 requires at a minimum GCC 10.1.0 for SVE
193 ACLE.
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195Security related changes:
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197 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
198 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
199 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
200 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
201 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
202 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
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203
204The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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206 [178] string: Please add strlcpy and strlcat (attached)
207 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
208 threads and stdio
209 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
210 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
211 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
212 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
213 intXX_t
214 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
215 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
216 argument
217 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
218 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
219 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
220 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
221 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
222 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
223 systems
224 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
225 symlink for libraries without soname
226 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
227 Clang
228 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
229 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
230 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
231 profiling data correctly
232 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
233 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
234 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
235 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
236 unnecessarily
237 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
238 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
239 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
240 early startup
241 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
242 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
243 on clang
244 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
245 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
246 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
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248Version 2.37
249
250Major new features:
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252* The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
253 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
254 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
255 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
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256
257Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
258
90d58fe8 259* The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
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260 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
261 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
262 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
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264Security related changes:
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266 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
267 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
268 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
269 portion of the contents of the heap.
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271The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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273 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
274 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
275 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
276 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
277 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
278 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
279 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
280 redirection headers
281 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
282 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
283 first if in a cycle
284 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
285 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
286 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
287 gethostbyname and other functions
288 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
289 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
290 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
291 wrong family
292 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
293 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
294 failed!
295 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
296 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
297 FAIL_UNSUPPORTED
298 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
299 segfault on alpha
300 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
301 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
302 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
303 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
304 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
305 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
306 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
307 reuses namespace
308 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
309 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
310 futexes on qemu-user
311 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
312 printed
313 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
314 whitespace
315 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
316 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
317 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
318 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
319 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
320 file support
321 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
322 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
323 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
324 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
325 cache is enabled
326 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
327 BMI2 instructions
328 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
329 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
330 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
331 platforms
332 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
333 optimizations
334 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
335 thousands grouping
336 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
337 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
338 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
339 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
340 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
341 aux.S: No such file or directory)
342 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
343 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
344 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
345 coincides with offset change
346 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
347 length in fortify mode
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349Version 2.36
350
351Major new features:
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353* Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
354 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
355 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
356 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
357 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
358 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
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361 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
7f0d9e61 362 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
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364* On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
365 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
366 by the pidfd.
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369 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
370 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
371 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
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374 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
375 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
376 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
377 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
378 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
379 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
380 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
381 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
382 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
383 validation by applications.
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386 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
387 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
388 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
78a408ee 389 with namespaces.
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392 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
393 unpredictable output.
394
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395* Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
396 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
397 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
398 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
399 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
400 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
401 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
402 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
403
6f4e0fcf 404* The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
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405 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
406 quality randomness from the kernel.
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3a380458 408* Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
409 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
410 ABI is supported:
411
412 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
413
414 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
415
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416Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
417
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418* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
419 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
420 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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422* The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
423 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
424 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
425 when libc.so is issued directly.
426
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427* On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
428
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429The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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431 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
432 return different result with versioned "foo"
433 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
434 mess
435 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
436 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
437 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
438 calls dlclose
439 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
440 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
441 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
442 enforced
443 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
444 deadlock
445 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
446 format
447 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
448 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
449 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
450 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
451 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
452 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
453 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
454 other standards.
455 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
456 from the stack
457 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
458 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
459 (breaks test isolation)
460 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
461 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
462 __convert_scm_timestamps
463 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
464 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
465 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
466 missing libraries
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468 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
469 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
470 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
471 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
472 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
473 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
474 SUCCESS=MERGE
475 [28936] build: nm: No such file
476 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
477 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
478 clobbers errno
479 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
480 bench.
481 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
482 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
483 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
484 /proc/self/fd/
485 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
486 on ENOENT and EACCES
487 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
488 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
489 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
490 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
491 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
492 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
493 is promoted to global scope
494 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
495 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
496 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
497 broke ld.so
498 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
499 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
500 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
501 failure
502 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
503 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
504 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
505 before '__fortified_attr_access'
506 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
507 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
508 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
509 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
510 value for filling after \0
511 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
512 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
513 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
514 aware
515 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
516 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
517 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
518 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
519 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
520 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
521 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
522 line 184
523 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
524 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
525 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
526 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
527 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
528 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
529 missing on microblaze with largefile
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532
533Major new features:
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535* Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
536 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
537 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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540 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
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543 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
544 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
545 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
546 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
547 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
548 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
549 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
550 glibc, and must be installed.
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552* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
553 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
554 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
555
556 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
557 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
558
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559 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
560 fMxfmafNx functions.
561
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562* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
563 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
564 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
565 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
566 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
567 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
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570 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
571 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
572 M_SQRT1_2f.
573
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574* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
575 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
576
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577* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
578 macro in <tgmath.h>.
579
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580* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
581
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582* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
583 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
584 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
585
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587 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
588 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
589 object dependency cases.
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592 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
593 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
594 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
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596* ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
597 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
598 return value is only used for its boolean status.
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600* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
601 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
602 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
603 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
604 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
605 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
606 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
607 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
608 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
609 Restartable Sequences.
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611* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
612 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
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614* All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
615 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
616 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
617 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
618 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
619 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
620 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
621 configuration.
622
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625 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
626 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
627 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
628 huge pages.
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630* The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
631 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
632
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633* The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
634 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
635 address.
636
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637* Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
638 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
639 ABI is supported:
640
641 - or1k-linux-gnu
642
643 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
644 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
645
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646* A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
647 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
648 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
649 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
650 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
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653 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
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655* The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
656 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
657 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
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659* Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
660 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
661 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
662 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
663 bounds).
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666 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
667
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670* On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
671 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
672 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
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674* The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
675 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
676
677 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
678 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
679
680 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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682* Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
683
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684* The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
685 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
686 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
687
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688* The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
689 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
690 catching coredumps and backtraces.
691
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692* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
693 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
694 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
695
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696* The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
697 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
698 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
699
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700* The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
701 support prelink PIE binaries.
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706 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
32ffd427 707 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
7f0d9e61 708 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
32ffd427 709 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
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712 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
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714 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
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716Security related changes:
717
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718 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
719 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
720 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
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722 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
723 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
724
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725 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
726 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
727 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
728
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729 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
730 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
731 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
732 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
733 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
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737 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
738 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
739 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
740 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
741 many dsos
742 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
743 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
744 degradation
745 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
746 loaded with dlmopen
747 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
748 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
749 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
750 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
751 ID whose lifetime has not ended
752 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
753 (CVE-2022-23219)
754 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
755 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
756 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
757 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
758 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
759 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
760 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
761 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
762 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
763 --enable-initfini-array
764 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
765 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
766 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
767 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
768 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
769 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
770 empty
771 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
772 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
773 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
774 built with ld.lld
775 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
776 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
777 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
778 2.34
779 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
780 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
781 robustness
782 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
783 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
784 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
785 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
786 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
787 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
788 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
789 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
790 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
791 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
792 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
793 file
794 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
795 only dynamic section
796 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
797 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
798 recvmsg()
799 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
800 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
801 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
802 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
803 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
804 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
805 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
806 C2X
807 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
808 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
809 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
810 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
811 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
812 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
813 globalmod1.so
814 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
815 systems with TIMESIZE=64
816 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
817 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
818 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
819 spurious NUL character on state reset
820 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
821 incorrect
822 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
823 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
824 execution test
825 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
826 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
827 hppa
828 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
829 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
830 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
831 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
832 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
833 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
834 crashes
835 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
836 binutils changes
837 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
838 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
839 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
840 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
841 is not useful
842 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
843 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
844 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
845 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
846 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
847 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
848 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
849 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
850 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
851 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
852 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
853 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
854 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
855 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
856 (CVE-2022-23218)
857 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
858 (CVE-2021-3999)
859 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
860 results (CVE-2021-3998)
861 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
862 in Systemtap probes
863 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
864 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
865 x86-64-baseline
866 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
867 with no closing ]
868 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
869 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
870 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
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878 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
879 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
880 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
881 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
882 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
883 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
884 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
885 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
886 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
887 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
888 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
889 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
890 potentially exposing application bugs.
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893 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
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895 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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897* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
898 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
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901 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
902 Arm SVE.
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905 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
906 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
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909 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
910 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
911 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
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916 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
917 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
918 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
919 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
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922 --disable-scv configure option.
923
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925 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
926 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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928 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
929 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
930 version of 5.1.
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933 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
934 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
935 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
936 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
937 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
938 that directory.
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941 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
942
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7f0d9e61 944 since Austin Group issue 62 dropped the async-signal-safe requirement for
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946 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
947 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
948 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
949 is currently a GNU extension.
950
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952 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
953
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955 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
956 although it is also present in other systems.
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959 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
960 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
961 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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964 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
965 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
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970 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
971 instead.
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974 programs should use the equivalent standard function
975 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
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978 programs should use the equivalent standard function
979 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
980
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982 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
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985
986* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
987 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
988 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
989 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
990 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
991 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
992 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
993 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
994 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
995 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
996 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
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999 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
1000 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
1001 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
1002 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
1003 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
1004 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
1005 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
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1008 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
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1011 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
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1013 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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1016 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
1017 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
1018 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
1019 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
1020 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
1021 upgrade or downgrade process.
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1024 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
1025 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
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1028 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
1029 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
1030 no longer have any effect on malloc.
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1033 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
1034 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
1035 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
1036 this functionality back.
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1039 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
1040 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
1041 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1044 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1045 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1046 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1047 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1048 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1049 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1050 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1051 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
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1056 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1057 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1058 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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1060Security related changes:
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1063 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1064 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1065 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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1068 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1069 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
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1072 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
1073 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
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1078 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
1079 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
1080 given integer (closefrom)
1081 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
1082 name containing multi-byte character(s)
1083 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
1084 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
1085 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
1086 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
1087 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
1088 random thread
1089 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
1090 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
1091 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
1092 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
1093 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
1094 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
1095 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
1096 manual is incorrect
1097 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
1098 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
1099 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
1100 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
1101 pthread_create and dlopen
1102 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
1103 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
1104 when non-root user changes priority
1105 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
1106 dlopen
1107 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
1108 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
1109 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
1110 ordered correctly
1111 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
1112 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
1113 data.
1114 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
1115 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
1116 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
1117 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
1118 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
1119 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
1120 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
1121 the right free implementation
1122 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
1123 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
1124 shm_open to pick wrong directory
1125 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
1126 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
1127 protector=all)
1128 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
1129 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
1130 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
1131 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
1132 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
1133 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
1134 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
1135 uninitialized
1136 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
1137 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
1138 system calls
1139 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
1140 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
1141 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
1142 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
1143 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
1144 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
1145 deployments
1146 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
1147 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
1148 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
1149 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
1150 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
1151 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
1152 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
1153 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
1154 is present
1155 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
1156 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
1157 protector=all
1158 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
1159 information for the current directory
1160 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
1161 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
1162 dl_runtime_resolve_*
1163 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
1164 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
1165 containers
1166 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
1167 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
1168 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
1169 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
1170 INT_MAX
1171 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
1172 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
1173 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
1174 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
1175 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
1176 tries resolving them lazily
1177 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
1178 libthread_db
1179 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
1180 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
1181 argument
1182 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1183 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1184 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1185 not set ENOMEM
1186 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1187 randomization
1188 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1189 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1190 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1191 IS_ERR_VALUE
1192 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1193 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1194 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1195 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1196 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1197 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1198 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1199 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1200 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1201 with n >= 0x80000000
1202 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1203 thread never allocated anything
1204 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1205 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1206 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1207 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1208 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1209 on older kernels
1210 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1211 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1212 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1213 AMD64 cpus
1214 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1215 terminator
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1218Version 2.33
1219
1220Major new features:
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1222* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1223 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1224 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
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1227 to change argv[0] string.
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1230 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1231 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1232 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1233 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1234 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1235 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1236 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1237 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1238
1239* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1240 information and library search path diagnostics.
1241
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1243 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1244 larger than fit in an integer.
1245
96203980 1246* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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1248* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1249 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1250
1251 - rv32imac ilp32
1252 - rv32imafdc ilp32
1253 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
1254
1255 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1256 2.28.
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1259 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1260 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1261 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1262 fortification.
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1267 mallinfo2 instead.
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1270 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1271 Instead, the default implementation is used.
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1274 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1275 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1276 prlimit.
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1279 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1280 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
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1283 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1284 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1285 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1286 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1287 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
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1290 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1291 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1292 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1293 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1294 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1295 loaded.
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1300 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
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1303 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1304 perform any adjustments.
1305
1306* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1307 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1308 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1309 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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1318 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1319 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
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1322 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1323 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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1326 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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1334 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1335 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1336 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1337 AT_EACCESS
1338 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
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1341 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1342 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1343 with GCC
1344 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1345 stack-protector=all
1346 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1347 cases
1348 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1349 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1350 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1351 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1352 changing gnuc version
1353 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1354 incorrect
1355 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1356 bits
1357 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1358 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1359 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1360 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1361 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
7f0d9e61 1362 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
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1364 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1365 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1366 too much stack space
1367 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1368 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1369 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1370 with optimization.
1371 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1372 anymore
1373 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1374 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1375 non-FMA4 system
1376 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1377 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1378 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1379 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1380 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1381 getaddrinfo
1382 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1383 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1384 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1385 fault
1386 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1387 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1388 at the end of a memory mapping
1389 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1390 by the caller to the kernel
1391 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1392 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1393 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1394 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1395 monotonic clocks
1396 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1397 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1398 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1399 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1400 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1401 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1402 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1403 one element
1404 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1405 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1406 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1407 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1408 lazy bound
1409 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1410 PI mutexes
1411 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1412 not safe
1413 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1414 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1415 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1416 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1417 platform
1418 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1419 startup code
1420 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1421 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1422 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1423 protected
1424 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1425 only since 2.31
1426 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1427 locked
1428 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1429 aligned
1430 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1431 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1432 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1433 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1434 detection logic
1435 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1436 pclose(3))
1437 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1438 setup
1439 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1440 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1441 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1442 work
1443 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1444 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1445 [27177] dynamic-link:
1446 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1447 work
1448 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1449 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1450 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1451 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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1455
1456Major new features:
1457
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1458* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1459 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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1460 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1461
1462* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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1464* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1465 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1466 Three ABIs are supported:
1467
1468 - arc-linux-gnu
1469 - arc-linux-gnuhf
1470 - arceb-linux-gnu
1471
4d3a77c7 1472 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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1473 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1474
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1475* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1476 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1477
051be01f 1478* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
4d3a77c7 1479 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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1480 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1481 this option.
1482
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1483* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1484 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1485 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1486
4d3a77c7 1487* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
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1488 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1489 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1490
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1491* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1492 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1493 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1494 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1495 libpthread.
1496
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1498 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1499 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1500 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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1501 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1502 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1503
1504 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1505 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1506
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1508 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1509 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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1510 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1511 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1512 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1513
1514 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1515 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1516
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1517* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1518 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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1519 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1520 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1521 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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1522 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1523 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1524 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1525 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1526 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1527 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1528 BTI compatible.
1529
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1531
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1532* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1533 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1534 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1535 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1536 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1537 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1538 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1539
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1540* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1541 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1542 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1543 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1544 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1545 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1546 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 1547 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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1549
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1550* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1551 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1552 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1553 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1554 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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1556* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1557 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1558 was not declared in any header file.
1559
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1560* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1561 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1562 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1563 sigaction functions instead.
1564
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1565* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1566 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1567
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1568* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1569 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1570 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1571 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1572 strsignal instead.
1573
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1574* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1575 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 1576 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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1577 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1578 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1579
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1580* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1581 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1582 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1583 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1584
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1585* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1586 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1587 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1588 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1589 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1590 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1591 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1592
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1593* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1594 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1595 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1596 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1597 flavor of secure RPC.)
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1599* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1600 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1601 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1602 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1603 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1604 object, to enable the hooks.
1605
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1606* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1607 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1608 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1609 LDAP.
1610
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1612
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1613* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1614 long double redirects.
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1615
1616Security related changes:
1617
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1618 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1619 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1620 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1621
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1622 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1623 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1624 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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1626 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1627 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1628
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1629 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1630 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1631 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1632 TALOS-2020-1019).
1633
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1636 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1637 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1638 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1639 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1640 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1641 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1642 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1643 filtee has constructor
1644 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1645 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1646 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1647 character entities for infinity & pi
1648 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1649 segfaults in applications
1650 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
7f0d9e61 1651 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
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1652 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1653 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1654 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1655 function with -mlong-double-64
1656 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1657 binding
1658 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1659 ld.so.cache
1660 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1661 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1662 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1663 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1664 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1665 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1666 linker
1667 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1668 dynamically loaded dsos
1669 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1670 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1671 access
1672 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1673 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1674 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1675 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1676 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1677 stale configuration forever
1678 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1679 (CVE-2020-10029)
1680 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1681 defaults to PIE
1682 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1683 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1684 (CVE-2020-6096)
1685 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1686 on 32 bit and old kernel
1687 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1688 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1689 Occitan
1690 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1691 amount of sigset_t bytes
1692 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1693 strings
1694 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1695 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1696 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1697 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1698 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1699 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1700 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1701 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1702 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1703 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1704 size_t
1705 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1706 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1707 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1708 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1709 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1710 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1711 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1712 cpu=power9
1713 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1714 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1715 segfault
1716 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1717 exiting detached thread
1718 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1719 for x32
1720 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1721 ERANGE
1722 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1723 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1724 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1725 dependencies in audit mode
1726 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1727 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1728 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1729 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1730 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1731 input
1732 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1733 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1734 preserve r2
1735 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1736 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1737 variables
1738 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1739 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1740 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1741 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1742 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1743 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1744 corruption in memset
1745
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1748
1749Major new features:
1750
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1751* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1752 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1753 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1754 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1755 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1756 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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1758* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1759 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1760 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1761 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1762
69ca4b54 1763* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 1764 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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1765 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1766
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1767* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1768
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1769* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1770 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1771 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1772 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1773 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1774 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1775 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1776 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1777
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1780* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1781 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1782 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1783 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1784 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1785 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
0b8c2f95 1786
12cbde1d 1787* The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
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1788 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1789 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1790
1791* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1792 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1793 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1794 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1795
1796* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1797 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1798 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1799 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1800 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1801 made this no longer practical.
1802
1803 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1804 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1805 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1806 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1807 release.)
1808
1809 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1810 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1811 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1812
1813 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1814 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1815 using clock_gettime instead.
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1817* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1818 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1819 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1820 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1821 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1822
1823 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1824 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1825 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1826 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1827
1828 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1829 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1830 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1831 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1832 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1833 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
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1836 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1837 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1838 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1839 offset API.
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1841* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1842 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1843 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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1845 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1846 configurations.
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1848* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1849 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1850 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1851 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1852 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1853
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1855 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1856 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1857 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1858 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1859 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1860 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1861 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1862
1863 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1864 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1865
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1867 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1868 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1869 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1870 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1871 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
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1874
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1877 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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1879* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1880 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1881 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
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1885 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1886 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1887
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1888 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1889 environment variable during program execution after a security
1890 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1891 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1892 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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1894The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1896 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1897 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1898 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1899 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1900 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1901 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1902 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1903 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1904 linking failure
1905 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1906 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1907 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1908 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1909 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1910 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1911 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1912 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1913 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1914 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1915 7408-2005
1916 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1917 with localedef
1918 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1919 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1920 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1921 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1922 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1923 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1924 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1925 utmp entries
1926 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1927 ABSOLUTE ABI
1928 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1929 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1930 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1931 (stringop-overflow error)
1932 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1933 functions other can lead to crashes
1934 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1935 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1936 unconditionally
1937 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1938 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1939 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1940 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1941 still can fail with an error
1942 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1943 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1944 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1945 initialized correctly
1946 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1947 -frewrite-includes
1948 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1949 value to an unsigned
1950 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1951 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1952 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1953 protection
1954 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1955 ifunc variant.
1956 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1957 al. for Clang++
1958 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1959 (Slovenian)
1960 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1961 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1962 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1963 with -std=c11
1964 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1965 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1966 part
1967 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1968 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1969 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1970 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1971 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1972 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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1975Version 2.30
1976
1977Major new features:
1978
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1979* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1980 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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1981 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1982
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1983* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1984 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1986* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1987 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1988 to the callback function.
1989
51ea67d5 1990* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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1992* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1993 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1994 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
1995
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1996* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1997
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1998* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1999 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
2000 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
2001 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
2002 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
2003
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2004* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
2005 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
2006 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
2007 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
2008 link time reference, is gone.
2009
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2010* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
2011 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
2012 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
2013 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
2014 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
2015 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
2016 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
2017 the clock choice at initialization time).
2018
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2019* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
2020 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
2021 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
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2023Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2024
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2025* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
2026 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
2027 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
2028 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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2029 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
2030 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
2031 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
2032 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
2033 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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2035* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
2036 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
2037 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
2038 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
2039 since glibc 2.17.
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2041* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
2042 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2043
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2044* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2045 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2046
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2047* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2048 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2049
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2050* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2051 BIND_NOW flag.
2052
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2053* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2054 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2055 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2056
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2057* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2058 header have been removed.
2059
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2060* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2061 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2062 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2063 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2064
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2067* GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2068
2069 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2070 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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2072Security related changes:
2073
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2074 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
2075 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
2076 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
2077 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
2078 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
2079 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
2080 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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2082 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
2083 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
2084 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
2085
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2088 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
2089 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
2090 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
2091 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
2092 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
2093 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
2094 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
2095 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
2096 invalid input drops valid char
2097 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
2098 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
2099 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
2100 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
2101 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
2102 malloc.h.
2103 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
2104 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
2105 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
2106 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
2107 functions
2108 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
2109 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
2110 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
2111 for long double = double
2112 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
2113 long double = double
2114 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
2115 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
2116 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
2117 long timeouts
fdb724f9 2118 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
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2119 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
2120 checking for NULL.
2121 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
2122 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
2123 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
2124 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
2125 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
2126 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
2127 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
2128 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
2129 not the default "nor"
2130 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
2131 false positives, change to modern flexible array
2132 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
2133 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
2134 compiler barriers.
2135 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
2136 unnecessary librt dependencies
2137 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
2138 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
2139 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
2140 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
2141 unsorted chunk
2142 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
2143 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
2144 to R_SPARC_H44
2145 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
2146 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
2147 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2148 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
2149 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
2150 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
2151 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
2152 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2153 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
2154 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
2155 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
2156 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
2157 was not used
2158 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
2159 tests
2160 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
2161 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
2162 time_t changes
2163 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
2164 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
2165 kernels and break testing
2166 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
2167 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
2168 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
2169 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
2170 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
2171 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
2172 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
2173 -O3 -march=skylake
2174 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
2175 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
2176 crash
2177 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
2178 linked glibc
2179 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
2180 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
2181 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2182 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2183 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2184 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2185 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2186 always implemented in the same library
2187 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2188 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2189 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2190 testroot
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2193Version 2.29
2194
2195Major new features:
2196
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2198 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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2200* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2201 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2202 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2203 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2204 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2205 configured location.
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2209* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2210 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2211
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2212* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2213 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2214 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2215 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2216 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2217 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2218 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2219 process actually does not use HTM).
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2222 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2223 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2224 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2225 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2226 of the same name.
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2228* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2229 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2230 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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2232 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2233
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2234* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2235 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2236 supported:
2237 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2238 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2239
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2240* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2241 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2242 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2243 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2244 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2245 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2246 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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2248* As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2249 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2250 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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2255 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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2257* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2258 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2259 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2260 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2261
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2262* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2263 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2264 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2265 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2266 structures.
2267
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2268* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2269 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2270 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2271 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2272 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2273 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2274
2275 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2276 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2277 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2278 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2279 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2280
2281 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2282 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2283 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2284
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2286
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2289* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2290 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2291
2292 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2293 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2294
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2295Security related changes:
2296
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2297 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2298 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2299 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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2301 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2302 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2303 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2304 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2305 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2306
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2307 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2308 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2309 or command injection issues in applications.
2310
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2311The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2312
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2313 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2314 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2315 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2316 thousands
2317 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2318 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2319 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2320 --param options)
2321 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2322 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2323 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2324 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2325 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2326 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2327 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2328 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2329 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2330 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2331 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2332 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2333 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2334 pointer argument is non-NULL
2335 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2336 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2337 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2338 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2339 multithreads call popen
2340 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2341 and pthread_create fails.
2342 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2343 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2344 constructor
2345 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2346 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2347 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2348 source tree
2349 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2350 float
2351 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2352 one error
2353 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2354 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2355 linker
2356 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2357 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2358 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2359 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2360 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2361 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2362 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2363 filesystems
2364 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2365 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2366 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2367 functions
2368 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2369 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2370 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2371 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2372 have wrong type
2373 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2374 wrong type
2375 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2376 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2377 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2378 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2379 threads
2380 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2381 start.S
2382 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2383 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2384 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2385 powerpc64le
2386 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2387 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2388 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2389 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2390 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2391 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2392 strftime
2393 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2394 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2395 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2396 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2397 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2398 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2399 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2400 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2401 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2402 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2403 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2404 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2405 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2406 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2407 tcache size
2408 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2409 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2410 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2411 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2412 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2413 (CVE-2018-19591)
2414 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2415 nearest rounding mode
2416 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2417 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2418 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2419 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2420 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2421 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2422 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2423 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2424 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2425 error
2426 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2427 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2428 using GCC 8
2429 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2430 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2431 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2432 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2433 ppc64le
2434 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2435 expected result
2436 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2437 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
2438 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2439 sigaltstack
2440 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2441 answers will be rejected)
2442 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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2445Version 2.28
2446
2447Major new features:
2448
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2449* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2450 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2451 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2452 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2453 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2454 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2455 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2456 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2457 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2458 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2459 archive or binary locales.
2460
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2461* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2462 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2463 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2464 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2465 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2466 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2467 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2468 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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2469 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2470 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2471 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2472 validated for i686.
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2474* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2475 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2476 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2477 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2478 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2479 field) to indicate such support is required.
2480
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2481* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2482 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2483 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2484
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2485* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2486 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2487
2488 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2489 fMxaddfNx functions.
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2491 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2492 fMxsubfNx functions.
2493
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2494 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2495 fMxmulfNx functions.
2496
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2497 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2498 fMxdivfNx functions.
2499
e607a352 2500* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 2501 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 2502 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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2503 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2504 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 2506* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 2507 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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2509* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2510 patches.
2511
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2512* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2513 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2514 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2515 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2516 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2517 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2518 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2519 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2520
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2521* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2522 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2523 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2524 the fstatat64 function.
2525
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2526* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2527 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2528 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2529 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2530 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2531 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2532 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2533 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2534 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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2536* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2537 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2538 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2539 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2540 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2541 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2542 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2543 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2544 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2545 results in a load failure now.
2546
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2547* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2548 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2549 <threads.h>:
2550
2551 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2552 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2553
2554 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2555 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2556
2557 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2558
2559 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2560 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2561
2562 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2563
2564 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2565
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2567
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2568* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2569 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2570 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2571
2572* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2573 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2574 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2575 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2576 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2577 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2578
2579* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2580 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2581 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2582 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2583 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2584 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2585 (Bug #1190.)
2586
2587* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2588 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2589 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2590 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2591 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2592 further explanation.
2593
2594 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2595 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2596 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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2598* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2599
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2600* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2601 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2602 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
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2604* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2605 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2606 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2607 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
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2609* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2610 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2611 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2612 for this function instead.
2613
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2614* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2615 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2616 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2617
2618* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2619 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2620 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2621 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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2623* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2624 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2625 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2626 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2627 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2628
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2629* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2630 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2631 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2632 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2633 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2634 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2635 such as libgcrypt.
2636
2637* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2638 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2639 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2640 enabled.
2641
2642* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2643 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2644 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2645
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2646* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2647 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2648 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2649 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2650 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2651 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2652
2653 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2654 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2655 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2656 behavior in a future release.
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2659
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2662Security related changes:
2663
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2664 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2665 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2666 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2667 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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2669 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2670 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2671
2672 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2673 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2674 Izbyshev.
2675
2676 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2677 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2678 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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2682 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2683 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2684 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2685 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2686 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2687 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2688 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2689 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2690 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2691 14651
2692 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2693 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2694 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2695 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2696 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2697 conversion is given
2698 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2699 date
2700 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2701 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2702 scope with -O1 and higher
2703 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2704 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2705 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2706 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2707 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2708 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2709 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2710 horrible machine code)
2711 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2712 last constant.
2713 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2714 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2715 symbols
2716 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2717 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2718 defined
2719 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2720 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2721 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2722 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2723 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2724 fpscr.c'
2725 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2726 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2727 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2728 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2729 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2730 the base address
2731 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2732 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2733 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2734 open_verify
2735 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2736 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2737 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2738 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2739 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2740 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2741 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2742 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2743 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2744 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2745 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2746 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2747 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2748 dlopen
2749 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2750 AT_SECURE=1
2751 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2752 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2753 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2754 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2755 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2756 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2757 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2758 for Spanish with CLDR
2759 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2760 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2761 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2762 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2763 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2764 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2765 es_BO
2766 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2767 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
2768 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2769 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2770 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2771 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2772 dlopen failures
2773 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2774 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2775 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2776 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2777 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2778 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2779 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2780 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2781 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2782 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2783 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2784 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2785 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2786 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2787 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2788 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2789 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2790 makecontext
2791 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2792 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2793 required
2794 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2795 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2796 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2797 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2798 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2799 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2800 disabled
2801 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2802 failure
2803 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2804 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2805 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2806 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2807 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2808 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2809 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2810 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2811 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2812 and libc build with -Os)
2813 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2814 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2815 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2816 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2817 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2818 that changes /etc/passwd
2819 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2820 (CVE-2018-11237)
2821 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2822 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2823 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2824 posix/regcomp.c
2825 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2826 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2827 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2828 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2829 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2830 AT_SECURE
2831 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2832 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2833 parser.c
2834 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2835 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2836 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2837 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2838 directed rounding
2839 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2840 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2841 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2842 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2843 lookup
2844 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2845 interposition
2846 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2847 DSO boundaries.
2848 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2849 <linux/time.h>
2850 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2851 checking
2852 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2853 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2854 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2855 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2856 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2857 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2858 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2859 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2860 processors
2861 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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2864Version 2.27
2865
2866Major new features:
2867
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2868* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2869 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 2870 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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2871 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2872 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2873 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2874 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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2875 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2876 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 2877
ac817e08 2878* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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2879 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2880 H.J. Lu from Intel.
20c7b195 2881
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2882* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2883
4cf82d23 2884* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
72aa6233 2885
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2886* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2887 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2888 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2889 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2890 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2891 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2892 from a security and performance perspective.
2893
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2894* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2895 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2896 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2897 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2898
81325b12 2899* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
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2900 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2901 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2902 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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2903 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2904
a23aa5b7 2905* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 2906 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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2907 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2908 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2909 _Float128.
2910
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2911* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2912 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2913 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 2914
4bab0224 2915* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
59d2cbb1 2916
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2917* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2918 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2919 pkey_get.
2920
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2921* The copy_file_range function was added.
2922
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2923* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2924
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2925* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2926 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2927 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2928
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2929* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2930 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2931 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2932 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2933 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2934 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2935 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2936
2937 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2938 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2939 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2940 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2941 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2942 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2943 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2944
2945 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2946 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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2947 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2948 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2949 respectively.
2950
2951 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2952 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2953 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2954 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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2955
2956 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2957 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2958 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2959
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2960 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2961 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 2962 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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2964* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2965 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2966 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2967
2968 - rv64imac lp64
2969 - rv64imafdc lp64
2970 - rv64imafdc lp64d
2971
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2972Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2973
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2974* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2975 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 2976 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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2977 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2978 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2979 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2980 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2981 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2982 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2983 fix this.
2984
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2985* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2986 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2987 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2988
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2989* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2990 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2991 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2992 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2993 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2994 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2995 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2996 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2997 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2998 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2999 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
3000 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
3001 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
3002 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
3003 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
3004 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
3005 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
3006 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
3007 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
3008 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
3009 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
3010 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
3011 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
3012 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
3013 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
3014 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
3015
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3017 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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3019* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
3020 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
3021 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
3022 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
3023 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
3024 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
3025 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
3026
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3027* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
3028 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
3029 exp10l for these functions instead.
3030
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3031* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
3032 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
3033 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3034
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3035* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
3036 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
3037 ignored.
3038
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3039* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
3040 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
3041 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
3042 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3043
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3044* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3045 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3046
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3047* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3048 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3049
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3050* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3051 programs.
3052
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3053* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3054
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3055* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3056 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3057 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3058 instead.
3059
3060 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3061 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3062 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3063 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3064 use, but predates the bits convention.
3065
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3066Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3067
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3068* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3069 subdirectory.
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3070
3071Security related changes:
3072
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3073 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
3074 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
3075 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
3076 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
3077 script.)
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3079 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3080 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
3081 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
3082 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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3084 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3085 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
3086 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
3087 of service.
3088
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3089 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
3090 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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3091 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3092
37ac8e63
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3093 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3094 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
3095 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
3096 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
3097
8a0b17e4
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3098 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
3099 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
3100 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
3101 Qualys.
3102
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3103 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
3104 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
3105 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
3106 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
3107 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
3108
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3109 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
3110 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
3111 current directory.
3112
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3113 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
3114 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
3115 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
3116
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3117 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
3118 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
3119 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
3120
71aa429b
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3121 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3122 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
3123 small, instead of NULL.
3124
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3125The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3126
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3127 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
3128 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
3129 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
3130 locale
3131 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
3132 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
3133 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
3134 cases
3135 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3136 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
3137 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
3138 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
3139 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
3140 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
3141 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
3142 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
3143 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
3144 "Bangla"
3145 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
3146 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
3147 width Latin characters
3148 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
3149 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
3150 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
3151 letters
3152 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3153 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
3154 (CVE-2009-5064)
3155 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
3156 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
3157 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
3158 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
3159 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
3160 if malloc succeeded
3161 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
3162 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
3163 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
3164 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
3165 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
3166 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
3167 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
3168 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
3169 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
3170 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
3171 U+309A
3172 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
3173 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
3174 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
3175 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
3176 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
3177 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
3178 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
3179 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
3180 for Nicaragua
3181 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3182 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3183 are not found.
3184 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3185 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3186 access
3187 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3188 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3189 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3190 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3191 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3192 __regcall calling convention
3193 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3194 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3195 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3196 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3197 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3198 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3199 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3200 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3201 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3202 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3203 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3204 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3205 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3206 locale
3207 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3208 protector=all
3209 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3210 wcwidth
3211 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3212 consistency check failures
3213 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3214 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3215 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3216 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3217 PIE
3218 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3219 locales
3220 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3221 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3222 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3223 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3224 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3225 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3226 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3227 on memory allocation failure
3228 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3229 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3230 the suspect)
3231 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3232 default (i386)
3233 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3234 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3235 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3236 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3237 instead of EAI_NODATA
3238 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3239 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3240 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3241 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3242 implementation
3243 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3244 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3245 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3246 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3247 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3248 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3249 allocation in syscall loops)
3250 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3251 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3252 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3253 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3254 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3255 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3256 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3257 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3258 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3259 occur with -O3
3260 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3261 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3262 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3263 amounts)
3264 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3265 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3266 niu_NZ
3267 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3268 checks
3269 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3270 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3271 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3272 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3273 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3274 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3275 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3276 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3277 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3278 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3279 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3280 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3281 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3282 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3283 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3284 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3285 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3286 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3287 parsing after OOM
3288 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3289 object
3290 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3291 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3292 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
3293 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3294 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3295 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 3296 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
3297 ppc64le
3298 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3299 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3300 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3301 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3302 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3303 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3304 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3305 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3306 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3307 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3308 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3309 math_force_eval
3310 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3311 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3312 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3313 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3314 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3315 the svid compat wrapper
3316 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3317 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3318 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3319 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3320 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3321 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3322 --verbose.
3323 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3324 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3325 to 2.26
3326 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3327 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3328 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3329 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3330 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3331 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3332 (CVE-2017-15804)
3333 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3334 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3335 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3336 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3337 failure."
3338 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3339 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3340 -m32
3341 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3342 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3343 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3344 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3345 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3346 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3347 inside the ASCII printable range
3348 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3349 -mlong-double-64
3350 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3351 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3352 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3353 Internet
3354 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3355 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3356 backslash
3357 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3358 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3359 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3360 heaps in an arena
3361 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3362 networking interface
3363 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3364 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3365 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3366 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3367 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3368 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3369 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3370 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3371 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3372 order
3373 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3374 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3375 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3376 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3377 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3378 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3379 same as for Croatian
3380 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3381 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3382 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3383 for initial thread"
3384 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3385 SC_SSIZE_MAX
3386 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3387 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3388 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3389 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3390 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3391 (CVE-2017-1000408)
3392 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3393 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3394 modified in case of success
3395 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3396 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3397 success
3398 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3399 stack-protector=all
3400 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3401 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3402 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3403 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3404 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3405 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3406 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3407 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3408 adding it on top
3409 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3410 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3411 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3412 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3413 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3414 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3415 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3416 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3417 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3418 (CVE-2018-1000001)
3419 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3420 elision and tunables
3421 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3422 "invalid" exception
3423 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3424 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3425 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3426 exception
3427 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3428 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3429 power4
3430 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3431 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3432 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3433 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3434 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3435 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3436 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3437 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3438 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
00cdcf5a 3439
58557c22
SP
3440\f
3441Version 2.26
3442
2b2ccd0c
ZW
3443Major new features:
3444
d5c3fafc
DD
3445* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3446 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3447 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3448 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3449 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3450 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3451 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3452
925fac77
MF
3453* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3454 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 3455 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
a0e52598
MF
3456 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3457 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3458 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3459 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
58557c22 3460
2b2ccd0c
ZW
3461* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3462 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3463 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 3464
2b2ccd0c 3465* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 3466
7e368000
JM
3467 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3468 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3469 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 3470
7e368000
JM
3471 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3472 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3473 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3474 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3475 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 3476
7e368000
JM
3477 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3478 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3479 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 3480
2b2ccd0c
ZW
3481* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3482 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 3483
2b2ccd0c
ZW
3484* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3485 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3486 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3487 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 3488
2b2ccd0c
ZW
3489* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3490 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3491 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3492 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 3493
2b2ccd0c
ZW
3494* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3495 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3496 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3497 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 3498
2b2ccd0c
ZW
3499* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3500 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3501 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 3502
2b2ccd0c 3503* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
8d6cba41
JM
3504 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3505 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3506 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 3507
2b2ccd0c 3508 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
8d6cba41
JM
3509 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3510 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3511 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3512 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3513
3514 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3515 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3516 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3517 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3518 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3519 interfaces should be used instead.
f819dbea 3520
2b2ccd0c
ZW
3521Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3522
3523* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3524 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3525 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3526 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3527 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3528 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3529 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3530 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3531
3532* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3533 removed.
3534
3535* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 3536 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
2b2ccd0c
ZW
3537 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3538 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3539
3540* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3541 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3542 default.
3543
3544 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3545 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3546 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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3547 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3548 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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3549
3550 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3551 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3552 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3553 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3554
3555* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3556 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3557 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3558 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3559
3560* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3561 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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3563* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3564 exported by accident.
3565
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3566* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3567 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3568 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3569
3570* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3571 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3572 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3573 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3574
3575* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3576
3577* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3578
3579* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3580 free instead.
3581
3582* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3583 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3584
3585* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3586 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3587
3588* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3589 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3590 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3591 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3592 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3593 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3594 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3595 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3596
3597* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3598 synced with the kernel:
3599
3600 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3601 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3602
3603 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3604 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3605 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3606
3607 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3608 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3609
3610Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3611
3612* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3613 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3614 x86-32 and x86-64.)
3615
7e368000 3616* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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3618* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3619 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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3620
3621 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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3622 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3623 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3624 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 3625 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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3627Security related changes:
3628
e14a2772 3629* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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3630 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3631
3632* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3633 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3634
3635* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3636 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3637 (CVE-2010-3192).
3638
3639* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3640 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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3641
3642The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3643
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3644 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3645 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3646 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3647 fields
3648 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3649 (CVE-2010-3192)
3650 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3651 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3652 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3653 ld.bfd is available
3654 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3655 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3656 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3657 x86 and other generic code
3658 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3659 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3660 incorrect
3661 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3662 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3663 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3664 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3665 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3666 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3667 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3668 resolver
3669 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3670 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3671 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3672 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3673 chillu characters
3674 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3675 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3676 receiving data
3677 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3678 whitespace
3679 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3680 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3681 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3682 for Peru
3683 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3684 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3685 failures consistently
3686 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3687 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3688 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3689 frame-pointer on i386
3690 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3691 register
7f0d9e61 3692 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
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3693 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3694 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3695 generic c code is used
3696 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3697 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3698 around 4000
3699 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3700 (CVE-2017-12133)
3701 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3702 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3703 with -lieee
3704 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3705 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3706 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3707 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3708 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3709 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3710 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3711 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3712 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3713 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3714 remove()
3715 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3716 checked for errors.
3717 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3718 new posix_spawn implementation
3719 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3720 leads to lower CPU frequency
3721 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3722 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3723 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3724 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3725 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3726 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3727 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3728 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3729 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3730 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3731 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3732 not support gethostbyname4_r
3733 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3734 switching
3735 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3736 arenas
3737 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3738 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3739 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3740 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3741 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3742 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3743 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3744 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3745 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3746 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3747 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3748 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3749 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3750 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3751 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3752 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3753 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3754 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3755 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3756 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3757 retry value
3758 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3759 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3760 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3761 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3762 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3763 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3764 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3765 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3766 [21537] libc:
3767 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3768 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3769 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3770 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3771 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3772 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3773 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3774 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3775 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3776 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3777 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3778 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3779 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3780 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3781 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3782 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3783 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3784 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3785 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3786 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3787 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3788 issue on x86-64
3789 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3790 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3791 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3792 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3793 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3794 construction
3795 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3796 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3797 between_2_3
3798 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3799 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3800 conditions
3801 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3802 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3803 Hindi Locale
3804 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3805 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3806 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3807 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3808 locale
3809 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3810 leading to relocation crash
3811 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3812 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3813 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3814 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3815 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3816 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3817 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3818 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3819 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3820 locale
3821 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3822 locale
3823 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3824 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3825 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3826 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3827 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3828 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3829 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3830 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3831 strings
3832 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3833 protector=all
3834 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3835 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
3836 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3837 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3838 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3839 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3840 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3841 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3842 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3843 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3844 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3845 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3846 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3847 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3848 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3849 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3850 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3851 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3852 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3853 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3854 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3855 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3856 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3857 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3858 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3859 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3860 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3861 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3862 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3863 with unicode 9.0
3864 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3865 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3866 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3867 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3868 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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3871Version 2.25
3872
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3873* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3874 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3875 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3876 Library.
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3878* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3879 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 3880 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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3881 the GNU C Library.
3882
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3883* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3884 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3885 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3886 the GNU C Library.
3887
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3888* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3889 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3890 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3891 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3892 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3893 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3894 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3895 will not.
3896
3897 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3898 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3899 many years.
3900
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3901* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3902 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3903 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3904
3905 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3906 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3907 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3908 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3909 problem.
3910
ec94343f 3911* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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3912 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3913 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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3915* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3916 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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3917 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3918 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3919 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3920 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3921 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3922 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3923 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3924 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3925 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3926 WINT_WIDTH.
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3928* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3929
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3930 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3931
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3932 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3933 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3934 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 3935
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3936 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3937 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3938
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3939 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3940 fminmagf, fminmagl.
3941
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3942 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3943
29cb9293 3944 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 3945
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3946 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3947 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 3948
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3949 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3950
eb3c12c7 3951 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 3952 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 3953
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3954* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3955 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3956
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3957* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3958 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3959 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3960
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3961* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3962 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3963 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3964 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3965 effects of the memory clear).
3966
b0216d3e
JM
3967* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3968 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3969 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3970 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3971
f3b904d9
JM
3972* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3973 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3974 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3975 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3976 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3977 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 3978
92dcaa3e
FW
3979* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3980 have been added.
3981
705a79f8
FW
3982* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3983 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3984 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3985 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3986 as large as several megabytes.
3987
4d728087
FW
3988* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3989 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3990 been removed.
3991
e863cce5
FW
3992* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3993 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3994 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3995 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3996 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3997 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3998 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3999
7ec47a85
FW
4000* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
4001 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
4002 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
4003 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
4004
099191b1 4005* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
FW
4006 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
4007 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
4008 Internet.
4009
bbe989ee
FW
4010* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
4011 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
4012 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 4013
b76e0659
FW
4014* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
4015 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
4016 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
4017 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
4018
3a2a1d2c
FW
4019* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
4020 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
4021 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
4022 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
4023 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
4024
be728303
FW
4025* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
4026 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
4027 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
4028 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
4029 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
4030
6815a33d
FW
4031* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
4032 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
4033 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
4034 did not reflect that.
4035
022dfdce
SL
4036* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
4037 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
4038 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
4039 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
4040 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
4041 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
4042 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4043 'gcc/config.gcc'.
4044
23b5cae1
MG
4045* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4046 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4047 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4048 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4049
7715d3ab
SP
4050* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4051 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4052 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4053 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4054
0cea3587
SP
4055* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4056 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4057 guarantees.
4058
4059* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4060 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4061 make state changes.
4062
e720d3d9
CD
4063Security related changes:
4064
fc82b0a2 4065* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4d047efd
FW
4066 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4067 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4068 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 4069 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 4070
fc82b0a2
FW
4071* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
4072 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
4073 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
4074 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
4075 (CVE-2015-5180)
4076
e720d3d9
CD
4077The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4078
fdb724f9 4079 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
4080 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
4081 protector-all
4082 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
4083 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
4084 before it started waiting
4085 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
4086 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
4087 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
4088 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
4089 wrong type
4090 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
4091 library linked with pthread
4092 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
4093 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
4094 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
4095 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
4096 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
4097 after being __libc_memalign()'d
4098 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
7f0d9e61 4099 when it shouldn't
4e054e6b
SP
4100 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
4101 not
4102 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
4103 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
4104 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
4105 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
4106 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
4107 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
4108 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
4109 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
4110 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
4111 termination
4112 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
4113 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
4114 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
4115 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
4116 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
4117 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
4118 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
4119 causes a segmentation fault
4120 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
4121 linking
4122 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
4123 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
4124 uninitialized GOT
4125 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
4126 versions
4127 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
4128 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
4129 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
4130 is always true.
4131 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
4132 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
4133 modes
4134 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
4135 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
4136 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
4137 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
4138 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
4139 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
4140 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
4141 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
4142 libpthread.a
4143 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
4144 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
4145 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
4146 _res_hconf
4147 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
4148 information.
4149 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
4150 penalty
4151 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
4152 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
4153 cause transition penalty
4154 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
4155 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
4156 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
4157 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
4158 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
4159 mcount.oS)
4160 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
4161 Checking
4162 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
4163 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
4164 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
4165 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
4166 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
4167 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
4168 multi-arch
4169 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
4170 (RES_USEBSTRING)
4171 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
4172 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
4173 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
4174 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
4175 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
4176 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
4177 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
4178 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
4179 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
4180 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
4181 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4182 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4183 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4184 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4185 glibc
4186 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4187 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4188 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4189 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4190 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4191 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4192 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4193 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4194 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4195 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4196 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4197 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4198 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4199 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4200 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4201 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4202 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4203 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4204 RES_USE_INET6
4205 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4206 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4207 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4208 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4209 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4210 wrong condition
4211 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4212 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4213 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4214 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4215 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4216 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4217 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4218 clang
4219 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4220 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4221 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4222 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4223 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 4224\f
11fca961
AZ
4225Version 2.24
4226
5b4ecd3f
JM
4227* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4228 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4229 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4230 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4231 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4232 architectures.
4233
b6ebba70
MF
4234* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4235 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4236 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 4237
7584a3f9
FW
4238* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4239 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4240
b49ab5f4
FW
4241* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4242 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4243 instead of “union wait”.
4244
ced8f893
SG
4245* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4246 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4247 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4248 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4249 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4250 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4251 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4252
2ba3cfa1
FW
4253* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4254 API.
4255
b7a9b7b0
MF
4256* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4257 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4258 drop it.
6a54bcda 4259
41a359e2
RS
4260* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4261 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4262 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4263 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4264 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4265 extensions.
4266
11fca961
AZ
4267Security related changes:
4268
f5b3338d
FW
4269* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4270 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4271 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4272
4ab2ab03
FW
4273* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4274 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4275 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4276 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 4277
5171f307
FW
4278* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4279 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4280 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4281
bc779a1a
FW
4282* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4283 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4284 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4285
fab38231
FW
4286* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4287 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4288 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4289 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4290
11fca961
AZ
4291The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4292
3c4f81ec
CD
4293 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4294 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4295 of MS-DOS.
4296 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4297 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4298 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4299 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4300 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4301 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4302 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4303 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4304 CLDR data
4305 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4306 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4307 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4308 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4309 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4310 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4311 romanisation
4312 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4313 and +/-
4314 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4315 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4316 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4317 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4318 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4319 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4320 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4321 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4322 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4323 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4324 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4325 all locales
4326 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4327 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4328 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4329 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4330 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4331 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4332 execute
4333 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4334 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4335 -Wsystem-headers
4336 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4337 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4338 Romanian locale data
4339 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4340 symbol
4341 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4342 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4343 language
4344 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4345 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4346 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4347 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4348 machine
4349 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4350 description
4351 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4352 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4353 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4354 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4355 when using RTLD_NEXT
4356 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4357 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4358 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4359 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4360 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4361 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4362 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4363 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4364 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4365 Excavator core
4366 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4367 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4368 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4369 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4370 double range
4371 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4372 part zero incorrect
4373 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4374 equality tests
4375 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4376 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4377 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4378 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4379 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4380 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4381 glibc-2.22
4382 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4383 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4384 'tst-numeric.c'
4385 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4386 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4387 low part
4388 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4389 result
4390 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4391 unaligned stack
4392 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4393 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4394 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4395 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4396 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4397 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4398 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4399 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4400 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4401 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4402 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4403 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4404 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4405 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4406 modes
4407 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4408 server addresses
4409 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4410 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4411 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4412 response to getaddrinfo
4413 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4414 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4415 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4416 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4417 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4418 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4419 sometimes incorrect
4420 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4421 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4422 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4423 record types
4424 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4425 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4426 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4427 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4428 (CVE-2016-3075)
4429 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4430 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4431 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4432 resolving symbols
4433 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4434 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4435 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4436 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4437 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4438 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4439 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4440 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4441 gethosts
4442 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4443 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4444 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4445 (CVE-2016-3706)
4446 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4447 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4448 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4449 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4450 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4451 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4452 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4453 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4454 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4455 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4456 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4457 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4458 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4459 executable
4460 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4461 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4462 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4463 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4464 XPG3
4465 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4466 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4467 (CVE-2016-4429)
4468 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4469 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4470 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4471 AS not supporting AVX512
4472 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4473 sNaN argument
4474 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4475 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4476 argument
4477 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4478 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4479 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4480 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4481 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4482 eax=0x80000001
4483 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4484 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4485 subnormals
4486 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4487 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4488 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4489 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4490 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4491 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4492 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4493 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4494 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4495 input
4496 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4497 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4498 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4499 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4500 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4501 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4502 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4503 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4504 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4505 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4506 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4507 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4508 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4509 double rounding
4510 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4511 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4512 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4513 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4514 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4515 (Only arm/linux)
4516 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4517 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4518 fallbacks
4519 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4520 "invalid" exceptions
4521 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4522 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4523 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4524 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4525 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4526 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4527 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4528 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4529 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 4530\f
aeb47bbc
DM
4531Version 2.23
4532
23256f5e
MF
4533* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4534 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4535 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4536 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4537 89, 16061, and 18568.
4538
2359035a
FW
4539* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4540 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4541 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4542 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4543 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4544 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4545 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4546
8b7b7f75
MW
4547* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4548 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4549 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4550
2eecc8af
FW
4551* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4552 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4553 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4554 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4555 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4556 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4557 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4558
a62719ba
FW
4559* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4560 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4561 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4562 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
7f0d9e61 4563 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 4564 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
4565 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4566 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 4567
bc148ca1
MF
4568* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4569 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4570 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4571 independent of the GNU C Library.
4572
1c70b6f1
ZW
4573* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4574 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 4575
eed3e1eb
JM
4576* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4577 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4578 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4579 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4580 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4581 Linux kernel.
4582
1efad39b
SL
4583* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4584 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 4585
d709042a
JM
4586* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4587 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4588 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4589 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4590 defining their own copy.
4591
b08b4218
JM
4592* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4593 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4594 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 4595
8f5e8b01
JM
4596Security related changes:
4597
6400ae6e
FW
4598* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4599 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4600
4601* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4602 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4603 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4604 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4605 (CVE-2015-8777)
4606
4607* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4608 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4609
4610* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4611 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4612
8f5e8b01
JM
4613* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4614 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 4615 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 4616
e9db92d3
CD
4617* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4618 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4619 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4620 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4621 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4622 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4623 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4624 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4625 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4626 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4627 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4628 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4629 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4630
ad372e29 4631The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 4632
ad372e29
AZ
4633 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4634 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4635 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4636 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4637 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4638 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4639 use `mkstemp'
4640 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
7f0d9e61 4641 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
ad372e29
AZ
4642 overflow/underflow errors
4643 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4644 overflow/underflow
4645 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4646 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4647 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4648 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4649 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4650 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4651 are not contiguous
4652 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4653 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4654 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4655 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4656 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4657 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4658 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4659 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4660 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4661 all exceptions
4662 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4663 arguments
4664 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4665 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4666 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4667 should include
4668 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4669 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4670 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4671 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4672 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4673 GNU/Linux
4674 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4675 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4676 arguments
4677 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4678 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4679 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4680 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4681 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4682 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4683 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4684 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4685 rounding results
4686 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4687 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4688 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4689 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4690 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4691 fails
4692 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4693 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4694 block boundary
4695 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4696 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4697 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4698 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4699 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4700 4.7?
4701 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4702 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4703 (related to lock elision)
4704 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4705 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4706 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4707 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4708 (CVE-2015-8779)
4709 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4710 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4711 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4712 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4713 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4714 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4715 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4716 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4717 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4718 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4719 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4720 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4721 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4722 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4723 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4724 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4725 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4726 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4727 contains a vector instruction exception.
4728 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4729 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4730 locales
4731 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4732 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4733 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4734 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4735 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4736 missing break ?
4737 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4738 32bit processes
4739 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4740 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4741 infinity
4742 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4743 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4744 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4745 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4746 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4747 be forced unloaded
4748 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4749 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4750 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4751 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4752 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4753 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4754 statically too large
4755 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4756 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4757 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4758 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4759 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4760 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4761 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4762 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4763 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4764 FUTEX_SHARED
4765 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4766 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4767 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4768 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4769 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4770 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4771 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4772 opendir()
4773 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4774 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4775 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4776 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4777 signgam
4778 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4779 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4780 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4781 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4782 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4783 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4784 dependencies
4785 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4786 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4787 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4788 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4789 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4790 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4791 (CVE-2015-8776)
4792 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4793 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4794 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4795 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4796 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4797 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4798 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4799 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4800 contention
4801 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4802 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4803 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4804 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4805 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4806 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4807 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4808 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4809 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4810 rounding modes
4811 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4812 ILP32
4813 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4814 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4815 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4816 threshold
4817 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4818 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4819 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
7f0d9e61 4820 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
ad372e29
AZ
4821 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4822 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4823 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4824 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4825 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4826 pthread_setaffinity_np
4827 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4828 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4829 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4830 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4831 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4832 prelink
4833 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4834 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4835 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4836 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4837 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4838 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4839 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4840 bits/mathcalls.h
4841 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4842 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4843 for C99-based standards
4844 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4845 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4846 math-only
4847 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4848 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4849 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4850 disabled
4851 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4852 "inexact" exceptions
4853 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4854 arguments
4855 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4856 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4857 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4858 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4859 rules
4860 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4861 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4862 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4863 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4864 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4865 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4866 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4867 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4868 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4869 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4870 from 32bit
4871 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4872 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4873 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4874 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4875 subnormals
4876 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4877 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4878 error on 32-bit architectures
4879 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4880 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4881 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4882 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4883 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4884 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4885 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4886 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4887 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4888 -Os
4889 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4890 CPU's.
4891 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4892 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4893 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4894 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4895 architectures
4896 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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1c7a4a51
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4898Version 2.22
4899
4900* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4901
3df5cd98 4902 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
4903 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4904 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4905 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4906 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4907 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4908 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4909 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4910 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4911 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4912 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4913 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4914 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4915 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4916 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4917 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4918 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4919 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
4920 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4921 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 4922
f7fba805
SL
4923* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4924 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4925
2959eda9
AS
4926* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4927 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4928 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4929 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4930 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4931 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 4932
42261ad7
FW
4933* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4934 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4935 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4936 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4937 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4938
afcd9480
AM
4939* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4940 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4941 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4942
4a4839c9
AO
4943* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4944 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4945 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4946 17998.
4947
b13b96ca
AS
4948* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4949 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4950 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
4951
4952* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
4953 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4954 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
4955 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4956 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
4957 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4958 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 4959 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
4960
4961* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4962 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4963 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4964 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
4965
4966* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4967 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4968 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
4969
4970* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4971 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
4972
4973* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4974 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4975 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4976
a03ba363 4977 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
4978 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4979 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 4980\f
58b930ae
SP
4981Version 2.21
4982
4983* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4984
042e1521 4985 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
4986 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4987 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4988 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4989 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4990 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4991 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4992 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4993 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4994 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4995 17892.
4996
46d54873
FW
4997* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4998 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4999 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
5000 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
5001 intended.
042e1521
CD
5002
5003* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
5004 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
5005 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
5006 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
5007 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
5008 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 5009
522e6ee3
CLT
5010* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
5011
d3b00f46
AZ
5012* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
5013 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 5014 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 5015
8d2c0a59
AZ
5016* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
5017 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
5018 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
5019 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
5020 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
5021 effects being visible outside transactions.
5022
dc400d7b
RE
5023* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
5024 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 5025
0f9dfe04
L
5026* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
5027
a39208bd
CD
5028* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
5029 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 5030 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
5031 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
5032 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 5033
a5357b7c
JL
5034* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
5035 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
5036
e54db0ea
AM
5037* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
5038 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
5039 format.
11e3417a 5040
4863355a
JM
5041* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5042 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5043 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5044
a4ecc9eb
JM
5045* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5046 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5047
0d560bbf 5048* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
5049
5050* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5051 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5052 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5053 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
5054
5055* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5056 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
5057
5058* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5059 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5060 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5061 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5062 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5063 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5064 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5065 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5066 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5067 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5068 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5069 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
5070 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
5071
5072 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
5073 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
5074 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
5075 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
5076 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 5077\f
d5b396c1
AM
5078Version 2.20
5079
5080* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5081
6a9350c8
JM
5082 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
5083 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
5084 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
5085 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
5086 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
5087 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
5088 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
5089 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
5090 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
5091 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
5092 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
5093 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
5094 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
5095 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
5096 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 5097
95ee7fb1
SL
5098* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5099 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
5100 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
5101 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
5102 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 5103 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
5104 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
5105 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
5106 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
5107 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
5108
0961f7e1
JL
5109* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
5110 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
5111 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
5112 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
5113 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 5114
f940b965
RE
5115* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5116
d0f5b3f8
JM
5117* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5118 can be used with is 2.6.32.
5119
d6fe5e58
JM
5120* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
5121 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
5122 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
5123 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
5124 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
5125 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
5126
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JM
5127* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
5128 from ports.
c941736c
JM
5129
5130* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
5131 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
5132 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
5133 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
5134 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
5135 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
5136 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
5137
5138* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
5139
5140* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
5141 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
5142 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
5143 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
5144 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
5145 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
5146 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
5147
5148* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
5149 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
5150 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
5151 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
5152 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
5153
5154* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
5155 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
5156 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
5157
5158* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
5159 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
5160 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
5161 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
5162
5163* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
5164 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
5165 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
5166 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
5167 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
5168 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
5169 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
5170 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
5171
5172* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
5173 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
5174 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
5175 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
5176 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
5177 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
5178 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
5179 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
5180 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
5181
5182* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5183 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5184 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5185 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5186 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 5187 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
5188
5189* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5190 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5191 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5192 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
5193\f
5194Version 2.19
5195
5196* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5197
fd2f9486
JM
5198 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5199 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5200 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5201 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5202 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5203 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5204 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5205 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5206 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5207 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
5208 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5209 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5210 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5211 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5212 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
5213 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5214 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5215 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 5216
11520a57
CD
5217* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5218 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5219
2fe16229
CD
5220* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5221 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5222 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
5223 extension which uses __block.
5224
303e567a
SP
5225* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5226 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5227 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5228 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5229 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5230
141f3a77
SP
5231* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5232 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5233 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5234 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5235 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
5236
5237* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5238 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5239 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5240 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5241 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
5242
5243* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5244 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5245 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5246
ba0d798c
WN
5247* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5248 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5249 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5250 #15856, #15857).
5251
7cbcdb36
SP
5252* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5253 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5254
82bab04b 5255* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 5256 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 5257
c5f840fd
MB
5258* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5259
3e181dda
CD
5260* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5261 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 5262
3e181dda 5263* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 5264
8a05c252
CL
5265* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5266
6055173a
JM
5267* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5268 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5269 for which the C library was built.
5270
b125d3e5
JM
5271* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5272 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5273 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5274 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5275 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5276 in the following circumstances:
5277
5278 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5279
5280 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5281 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5282
d4f66d37
JM
5283* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5284 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5285
3e181dda
CD
5286* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5287 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 5288
ffb89e53
AO
5289* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5290
5d29ccce
SP
5291* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5292 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5293
8b7d57cd 5294* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
5295
5296* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 5297
fd712ef3 5298* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 5299
c688b419
JM
5300* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5301 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5302 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5303 disable some of those declarations.
5304
7011c262 5305* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
5306 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5307 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
5308
5309* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5310 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
5311
5312* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5313 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5314 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5315 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5316 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5317 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5318 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5319 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5320 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5321 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5322 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5323 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5324 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
5325\f
5326Version 2.18
5327
5328* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5329
17db6e8d 5330 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
5331 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5332 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
5333 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5334 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5335 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5336 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5337 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5338 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5339 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5340 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5341 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5342 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5343 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
5344
5345* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5346 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5347 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5348 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5349 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5350 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 5351
5b535ac4
AS
5352* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5353 #15078).
5354
1cef1b19
AS
5355* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5356 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 5357
55e4107b
SP
5358* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5359 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5360 destructor calls to glibc.
5361
e5c74c63
SP
5362* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5363 output.
5364
5365* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5366 non-x86 architectures.
5367
e7521973
JM
5368* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5369
5370* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5371
5372* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5373 Richard Henderson.
5374
5375* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5376
5377* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5378 Richard Henderson.
5379
5380* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5381 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5382
8cfdb7e0
SP
5383* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5384
57267616
TS
5385* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5386 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 5387
c204ab28
SP
5388* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5389 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 5390
0748546f
PE
5391* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5392 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5393 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5394
61dd6208
SP
5395* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5396 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5397 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
5398
5399* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5400 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5401 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5402 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5403 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
5404
5405* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5406 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5407
5408* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
5409\f
5410Version 2.17
5411
5412* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5413
80ceeaee 5414 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
5415 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5416 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5417 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5418 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5419 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5420 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5421 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5422 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5423 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5424 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5425 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5426 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5427 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5428 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 5429
95b4f1b6
SE
5430* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5431
14bc93a9
JL
5432* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5433 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 5434
b54eb3cb
JM
5435* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5436 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5437
7e2bd01f
MS
5438* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5439
08f43f9b
AK
5440* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5441 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5442 zEnterprise z196.
5443 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5444
84b3fd84
FW
5445* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5446 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5447 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5448
815e6fa3
GB
5449* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5450 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5451
400726de
MK
5452* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5453 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5454
7aab07e4 5455* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 5456 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 5457
15d0da8c
WS
5458* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5459 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5460
3cc3ef96
RM
5461* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5462 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
5463 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5464 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 5465
b54eb3cb
JM
5466* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5467 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5468
85429b1a 5469* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 5470 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
5471 default.
5472
b54eb3cb
JM
5473* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5474 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5475 information in --help and --version output.
5476
050af9c4
SP
5477* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5478 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5479 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5480
89a3ad0b
AO
5481* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5482 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5483 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5484 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5485 when the mode is enabled.
5486
6e6249d0
RM
5487* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5488 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5489 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5490 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5491 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5492 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5493 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 5494
d9286582
NK
5495* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5496 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
UD
5497\f
5498Version 2.16
5499
5500* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5501
a8133e19
JM
5502 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5503 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5504 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5505 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5506 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5507 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5508 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5509 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5510 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5511 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5512 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5513 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5514 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5515 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5516 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5517 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5518 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5519 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5520 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5521 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5522 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5523 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5524 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 5525
a086b4d6
L
5526* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5527 configuring glibc with:
5528 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 5529 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
5530 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5531
380d7e87
UD
5532* ISO C11 support:
5533
5534 + define static_assert
5535
5536 + do not declare gets
5537
5538 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5539
5540 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5541 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5542 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5543 implementation.
8d44e150 5544
74033a25 5545 + timespec_get added
544563c9
UD
5546
5547 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 5548
ac097f5c
UD
5549 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5550
16dd419d
UD
5551 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5552
9dc4e1fb 5553* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
UD
5554
5555* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
5556
5557* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5558 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
5559
5560* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5561 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
5562
5563* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5564 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5565 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5566 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5567 existing applications.
ffb7875d 5568
21708942 5569* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
5570 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5571 before 2.6.
83678f76 5572
edb00e4d
RH
5573* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5574 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5575 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5576
83678f76 5577* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
5578
5579* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5580 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5581 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5582 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5583 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
5584
5585* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5586
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
5587* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5588 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
5589
5590* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5591
5592* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5593 without a previously built glibc.
5594
5595* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5596 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5597
5598* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5599 now supported for ARM processors.
5600
5601* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5602 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5603 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5604
5605* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
5606
5607* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5608 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5609 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5610 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
5611
5612* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5613 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5614 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5615 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
5616
5617* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5618 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5619 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5620 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5621 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5622
5623* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5624 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5625 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5626 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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5630* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5631
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5632 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5633 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5634 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5635 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5636 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5637 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5638 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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5640* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5641 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5643* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5644 and support for initgroups lookups.
5645 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5646
5647* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5648 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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5649
5650* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5651 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 5652
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5653* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5654 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 5655 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 5656
d42964a0 5657* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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5658 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5659
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5660* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5661 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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5662 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5663
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5664* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5665 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5666
5667* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5668 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5669
5670* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5671 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5672
5673* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5674 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5675
5676* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5677 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5678
5679* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5680 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5682* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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5683
5684* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5685 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 5686
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5687* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5688 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 5689
6b64057b 5690* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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5694* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5695
553149f6 5696 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 5697 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 5698 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 5699 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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5701 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5702 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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5703 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5704 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 5705 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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5707* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5708 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5709 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 5710 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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5711
5712 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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5713 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5714 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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5715 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5716
c6489db3 5717* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 5718 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 5719
72d1dddb 5720* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 5721 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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5723* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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5725* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5726 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5727
5728* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5729 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5730 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5731 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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5733Version 2.13
5734
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5735* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5736
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5737 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5738 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5739 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5740 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5741 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 5742
10b3bedc 5743* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 5744
ac2b484c 5745* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 5746
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5747* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5748 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 5749 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5751Version 2.12
5752
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5753* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5754
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5755 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5756 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5757 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5758 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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5759 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5760 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5761 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 5762 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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5763
5764* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 5765
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5766* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5767
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5768* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5769
5770* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5771 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5772 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5773
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5774* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5775 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5776 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5777 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5778 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5779
d36b9613 5780* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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5782Version 2.11
5783
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5784* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5785
5786 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5787 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5788 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5789 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5790 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5791 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5792
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5793* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5794 mkostemps64
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5795 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5796
24ab9c76 5797* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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5798 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5799
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5800* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5801 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5802
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5803* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5804
0122f28e 5805* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 5806 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 5807 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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5808 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5809
9d36a6c4 5810 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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5811 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5812
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5813* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5814 strstr, strcasestr.
5815 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5816
5817* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5818 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5819
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5820* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5821 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5822
5823* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5824 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5825
5826* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5827 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5828 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5829 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5830 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5831 necessity is every process again.
5832 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5833
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5834* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5835 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5836
5837* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5838 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5839
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5840* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5841 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5842 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5843
9dd5b8a1 5844* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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5846Version 2.10
5847
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5848* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5849
5850 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5851 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5852 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5853 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5854 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5855
bb066545 5856* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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5857 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5858
425ce2ed 5859* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 5860 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 5861
1fdd89a7 5862* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 5863 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
1fdd89a7 5864
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5865* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5866 now in POSIX.
77db439e 5867
1f04d005 5868* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 5869 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 5870
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5871* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5872 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5873
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5874* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5875 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5876
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5877* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5878 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5879
5880* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5881 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5882 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5883
735be400 5884* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 5885
84aa52d7 5886* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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5887 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5888
5889* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5890 and extend existing format specifiers.
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5891 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5892
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5893* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5894 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5895
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5896* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5897 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5898 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5899 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5900 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5901 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5903Version 2.9
5904
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5905* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5906
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5907 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5908 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5909 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5910 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5911 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
d36b9613 5912
b29899ae 5913* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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5914 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5915
5916* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5917 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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5918
5919* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5920 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5921
5922* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5923 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5924 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5925
5926* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5927 Implemented by Eric Blake.
e038616f 5928
8ec2550e 5929* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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5930
5931* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 5932 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
e038616f 5933
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5934* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5935 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5936 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5937 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5938
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5939* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5940 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5942* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5943 Sinhala)
48b22986 5944 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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5945
5946* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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5949
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5950* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5951
5952 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5953 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5954 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5955 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5956 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5957 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5958 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5959
e038616f 5960* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 5961
77751669 5962* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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5964* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5965 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5966
5967* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5968
5969* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5970 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5971
5972* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5973 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5974
5975* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5976 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5977 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5978
5979* Faster memset for x86-64.
5980 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5981
5982* Faster memcpy on x86.
5983 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5984
5985* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5986 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3b32d8a2 5987
7f0d9e61 5988* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
d990b282 5989 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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5991Version 2.7
5992
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5993* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5994
5995 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5996 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5997 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5998 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5999 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
6000
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6002 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6003
6004* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6005
6006* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
6007 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
6008 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6009
6010* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
6011 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6012
28919a77 6013* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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6015
6016* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6017
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6018* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
6019 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6020
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6021* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
6022 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6023
6024* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
6025 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6026
6027* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6028
6029* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
6030 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6032* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
6033 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
6034 yo_NG.
6035
6036+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
6037 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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11bf311e 6039Version 2.6
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6042
6043 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6044 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6045 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6046 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6047 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6048 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6049 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6050 4702, 4858
6051
bce20b9a 6052* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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6055
b21fa963 6056* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6059
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6061
6062 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6063 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6064 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6065 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6066 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6067 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6068 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6069 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
6070 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
6071
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6074 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6076* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
6077 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6078
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6081* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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6083* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
6084 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
6085 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 6086 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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6088
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6090 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
6091 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
6092 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6093
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6095 Ulrich Drepper.
6096
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6097* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6098
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6099* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
6100 Ulrich Drepper.
6101
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6102* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
6103
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6104* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
6105 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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6108
6109* More overflow detection functions.
6110
6111* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
6112 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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6115 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
6116 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
6117 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
6118 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
6119 by Masahide Washizawa.
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6122 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6124* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
6125 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
6126 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
6127 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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6129* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
6130 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
6131
6132* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
6133
6134* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
6135 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
6136 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
6137
6138* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
6139 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
6140
6141* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
6142 for compatibility with some other systems.
6143
6144* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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6146Version 2.3.6
6147
6148* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6149
6150 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
6151 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
6152 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
6153 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
6154 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
6155 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
6156
5a82c748 6157 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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6159* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
6160
6161* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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6163Version 2.3.5
6164
6165* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6166
6167 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
6168 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
6169 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
6170 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
6171
5a82c748 6172 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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6175
6176* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
6177 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6178
6179* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
6180 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
6181 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6182
6183* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6184 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6185
0325dd20 6186* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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6187 efficiently.
6188 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6189
6190* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6191 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6192 handling data.
6193
6194* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6195 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 6196 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6197
6198* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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6199 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6200
6201* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6202 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6203 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6204 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6205
6206* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6207 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6208 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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6209 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6210
6211* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6212 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6213 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6214 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6215 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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6217Version 2.3.3
6218
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6219* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6220 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6221
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6222* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6223 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 6224
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6226 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6227
6228* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6229 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6231* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6232 by Roland McGrath.
6233
c5af724c 6234* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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6235 and Ulrich Drepper.
6236
6237* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6238 RFC 3484.
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6240Version 2.3.2
6241
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6242* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6243 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6244 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6245 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6246 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6247 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6248 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6249 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6250 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6251
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6252* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6253 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6254 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6255
6256* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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6257
6258* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6259 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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6261* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6262 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6263
52a16e58 6264* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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6266* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6267 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
9ef0a840 6268
7f0d9e61 6269* With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
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6270 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6271 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6272 of weak definition in ld.so.
6273
6274* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6275 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6276
6277* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6278 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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6282* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6283 charsets.
6284
6285* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6286 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 6287
bb0ec5bd 6288* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 6289 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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6290
6291* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6292 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 6293
bb0ec5bd 6294* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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6295 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6296 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6298* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6299 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 6300
bb0ec5bd 6301* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 6302 implementation of regex.
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6303
6304* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6305 Unicode 3.2.
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6307* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6308 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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6310* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6311 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6312 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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6314* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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6316
6317* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6318 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6319 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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6320
6321* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6322 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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6323
6324* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6325 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6326 and Ulrich Drepper.
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6327
6328* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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6330Version 2.2.6
6331
6332* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6333 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6334
6335* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6336 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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6338Version 2.2.5
6339
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6340* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6341 128-bit long double format.
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6343* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6344 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 6345
ad2e4f18 6346* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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6348* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6349
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6350* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6351 as well.
6352
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6353* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6354 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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6355
6356* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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6358Version 2.2.4
6359
2995f70e 6360* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 6361 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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6362
6363* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6364 support Unicode 3.1.
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6365
6366* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6367 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 6368
69d5f925 6369* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 6370
69d5f925 6371* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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6372 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6373 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6374
6375* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6376 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6377
6378* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6379 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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6381* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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6383Version 2.2.3
6384
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6386 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6387 in float, double, and long double format.
6388
f128331c 6389* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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6390 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6391 128-bit long double format.
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6393* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6394 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6395 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6396 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6397
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6398* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6399 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6400 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6402* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6403 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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6404
6405* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6406 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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6408* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6409 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6410 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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6411
6412* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6413 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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6415* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6416 of functions for Linux/x86.
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6418* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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6421
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6423 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6424 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6425 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6426 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6427 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6428 other headers.
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6430* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6431 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6432
6433* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6434 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6435 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6436 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6437
6438* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6439 locales. While
6440
6441 locale -a
6442
6443 only lists the names of the supported locales
6444
6445 locale -a --verbose
6446
6447 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6448 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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6451
6452* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6453 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6454 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6455 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6456 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6457
6458 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6459
6460 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6461
6462 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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6464* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6465 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6466 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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6468* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6469 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6470
6471* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6472 changed from the default "C" locale.
6473
6474* The usual bug fixes.
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6477
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6478* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6479 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6480 is in progress.
6481
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6482* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6483
793bd4d9 6484* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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6486 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6487 obviously requires a database library being available.
6488
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6489* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6490
abbffdf9 6491* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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6493* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6494 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6495
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6496* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6497
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6499 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6500 and Mark Kettenis.
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6501
6502 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6503 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6504 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 6505
a00c3ca9 6506 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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6507 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6508
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6510 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6511 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6512
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6514 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6515 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6516 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6517
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6518 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6519 structures for the wide character tables.
6520
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6521* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6522
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6524
6525* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6526
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6527* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6528 and Yutaka Niibe.
6529
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6530* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6531
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6532* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6533
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6534* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6535
6536* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6537
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6539
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6541 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6542 implemented for Linux.
6543
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6545 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6546 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6547 versions.
6548
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6550 Masahide Washizawa.
6551
8f3f1e09 6552* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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6554Version 2.1.3
6555
6556* bug fixes
6557
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6559Version 2.1.2
6560
6561* bug fixes
6562
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6564Version 2.1.1
6565
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6567
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6568* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6569
407d26b7 6570* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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6571
6572* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6573
407d26b7 6574* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 6575
407d26b7 6576* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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6578* Update timezone data files.
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6580* lots of charmaps corrections
6581
6582* some new locale definitions and charmaps
6583
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6586
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6587* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6588 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6589 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6590 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6591 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6592 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6593
c84142e8 6594* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 6595 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 6596
1fb05e3d 6597* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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6599
7f0d9e61 6600* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
c84142e8 6601 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 6602
cbdee279 6603* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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6605* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 6606 numbers.
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cbdee279 6608* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
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6610* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6611 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
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6613* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6614 library.
6615
e61abf83 6616* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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6617 functions from ISO C 9X.
6618
6619* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6620 real valued functions.
e61abf83 6621
a5a0310d 6622* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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6625
6626* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 6627
440d13e2 6628* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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6630* Optimized string functions have been added.
6631
6632* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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6634* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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6637 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6638
6639 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6640 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6641
0dee6738 6642 user system wall
48244d09 6643
0dee6738 6644 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 6645
0dee6738 6646 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 6647
0dee6738 6648 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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6650 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6651
6652 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6653
6654 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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6657 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 6658 horribly slow.
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6661 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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6663* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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6665* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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6667* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6668 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6669
6670* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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6672* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6673 Bambrough.
6674
6675* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6676 latest draft standards.
6677
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6679
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6681~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 6682addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 6683alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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6684argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6685argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6686argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6687argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6688argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6689argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6690argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6691argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6692argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6693argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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6694authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6695authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6696authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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6697backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6698backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6699backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6700cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
6701cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6702cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6703cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6704cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6705cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6706capget NEW: kernel
6707capset NEW: kernel
6708carg NEW: ISO C 9x
6709cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
6710cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
6711casin NEW: ISO C 9x
6712casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6713casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6714casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6715casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6716casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6717catan NEW: ISO C 9x
6718catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6719catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6720catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6721catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6722catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6724ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
6725ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6726ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6727ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6728ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6729ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6730cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
6731cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
6732cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
6733cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
6734cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6735cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6736clearerr_locked REMOVED
6737clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6738clog NEW: ISO C 9x
6739clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6740clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6741clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6742clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
6743clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
6744conj NEW: ISO C 9x
6745conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
6746conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
6747cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
6748cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
6749cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
6750cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
6751cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6752cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6753creal NEW: ISO C 9x
6754crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6755creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6756creat64 NEW: LFS
6757csin NEW: ISO C 9x
6758csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6759csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6760csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6761csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6762csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6763csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
6764csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6765csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6766ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
6767ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6768ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6769ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6770ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6771ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6772des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6773ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6774endutxent NEW: Unix98
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6775exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6776exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6777exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6778exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6779exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6780exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6781fattach NEW: STREAMS
6782fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6783fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
6784fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
6785fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
6786feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6787fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6788fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6789fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6790feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6791feof_locked REMOVED
6792feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6793ferror_locked REMOVED
6794fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6795fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6796fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6797fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6798feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6799fflush_locked REMOVED
6800ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
6801ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
6802fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
6803fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6804fileno_locked REMOVED
6805fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6806fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6807fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6808fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6809fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6810fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6811fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6812fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6813fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 6814fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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6815fopen64 NEW: LFS
6816fputc_locked REMOVED
6817fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6818fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6819freopen64 NEW: LFS
6820fseeko NEW: Unix98
6821fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
6822fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
6823fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6824fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
6825ftello NEW: Unix98
6826ftello64 NEW: LFS
6827ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6828ftw64 NEW: LFS
6829fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6830gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6831gamma_r REMOVED
6832gammaf_r REMOVED
6833gammal_r REMOVED
6834getchar_locked REMOVED
6835getdate NEW: Unix98
6836getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6837getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6838getmsg NEW: STREAMS
6839getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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6841getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6842getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6843getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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6844getutxent NEW: Unix98
6845getutxid NEW: Unix98
6846getutxline NEW: Unix98
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6847glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6848globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6849gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6850gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6851grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 6852host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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6853iconv NEW: iconv
6854iconv_close NEW: iconv
6855iconv_open NEW: iconv
6856if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6857if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6858if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6859if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6860in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6861in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6862inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6863isastream NEW: STREAMS
6864iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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6865key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6866key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6867key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6868key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6869key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6870key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6871key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6872key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6873key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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6874llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6875llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6876llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6877llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6878llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6879llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6880log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6881log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6882log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6883lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6884lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6885lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6886lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6887lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6888lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6889lseek64 NEW: LFS
6890makecontext NEW: Unix98
6891mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6892mmap64 NEW: LFS
6893moncontrol REMOVED
6894modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6895nan NEW: ISO C 9x
6896nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6897nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6898nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6899nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6900nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6901netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6902netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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6903nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6904nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6905nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6906nftw NEW: Unix98
6907nftw64 NEW: LFS
6908open64 NEW: LFS
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6910pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
6911pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6912pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6913pread NEW: Unix98
6914pread64 NEW: LFS
6915printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6916printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6917profil_counter REMOVED
6918pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6919pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6920ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6921ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6922putc_locked REMOVED
6923putchar_locked REMOVED
6924putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6925putmsg NEW: STREAMS
6926putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 6927pututxline NEW: Unix98
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6928pwrite NEW: Unix98
6929pwrite64 NEW: LFS
6930readdir64 NEW: LFS
6931readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6932remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6933remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6934remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6935round NEW: ISO C 9x
6936roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6937roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6938rtime NEW: GNU ext.
6939scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6940scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6941scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6942scandir64 NEW: LFS
6943sendfile NEW: kernel
6944setcontext NEW: Unix98
6945setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 6946setutxent NEW: Unix98
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6947sighold NEW: Unix98
6948sigignore NEW: Unix98
6949sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6950sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6951sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6952sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6953sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6954sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6955sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6956sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6957statfs64 NEW: LFS
6958statvfs NEW: Unix98
6959statvfs64 NEW: LFS
6960strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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6961strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6962strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6963strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
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6966svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6967swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6968tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6969tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6970tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6971tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6972tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6973tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
6974trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
6975truncate64 NEW: LFS
6976truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6977truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6978umount2 NEW: kernel
6979unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 6980updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 6981user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6982utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 6983versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
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6986wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6987wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6988wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6989wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6990wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6991wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6992wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6993wcswcs NEW: Unix98
6994wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6995wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6996write_profiling REMOVED
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6998xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6999xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
7000xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
7001xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
7002xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
7003xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
7004xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
7005xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
7006xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
7007xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
7008xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
7009xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 7010xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 7011xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
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7014Version 2.0.6
7015
7016* more bug fixes
7017
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7019Version 2.0.5
7020
7021* more bug fixes
7022
7023* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
7024
7025* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
7026
7027* rewrite of cbrt function
7028
7029* update of timezone data
7030\f
7031Version 2.0.4
7032
7033* more bug fixes
7034\f
7035Version 2.0.3
7036
7037* more bug fixes
c84142e8 7038\f
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7040
7041* more bug fixes
7042
7043* add atoll function
7044
7045* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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7047* fix math functions
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7049Version 2.0.1
7050
7051* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7052
7053* dynamic loader preserves all registers
7054
7055* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7056 the ELF dynamic loader.
7057
7058* support for parallel builds is improved
7059\f
40a4b79f 7060Version 2.0
28f540f4 7061
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7062* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7063 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7064 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
7065
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7067 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7068 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7069 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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7071 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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7073 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
7074 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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7076 files in the ELF format.
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7077
7078* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
7079 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
7080
7081* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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7083 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
7084 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
7085 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
7086 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
7087 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
7088 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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7090 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
7091 about dynamically linked binaries.
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7093* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
7094 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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7095 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
7096 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
7097 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 7098
f7eac6eb 7099* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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7100 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
7101 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
7102 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
7103 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
7104
7105* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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7107* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
7108 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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7109 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
7110 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
7111 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
7112 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
7113 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
7114 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
7115 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 7116
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7117* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
7118 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
7119 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
7120
7121* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
7122 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
7123 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
7124
7125* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
7126 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
7127 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
7128 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
7129
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7130* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
7131 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
7132 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
7133
7134* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
7135 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
7136 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
7137
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7138* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
7139 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
7140
f7eac6eb 7141* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 7142 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 7143 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7f0d9e61 7144 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
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7145
7146* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
7147 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
7148 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 7149
71733723 7150* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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7151 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
7152 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
7153 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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7154 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
7155 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 7156 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 7157 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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7158
7159* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
7160 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
7161 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
7162 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
7163 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
7164 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
7165 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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7166
7167* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
7168 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
7169 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
7170 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
7171 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
7172 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
7173
7174* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
7175 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7176
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7177* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
7178 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
7179 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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7181* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7182
7183* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7184 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7185 their use is discouraged.
7186
7187* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7188 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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7190* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7191 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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7192
7193* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7194 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7195
7196* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7197 see <dirent.h>.
7198
7199* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7200 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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7201 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7202 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7203 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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7204
7205* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7206 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7207 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7208 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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7209
7210* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7211 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7212
7213* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7214 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7215 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7216 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7217 number generator.
7218
7219* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7220 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7221
7222* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7223 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7224
71733723 7225* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 7226 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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7227 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7228 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 7229
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7230* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7231
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7232* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7233 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7234 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7235
7236* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7237 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 7239* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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7240 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7241 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7242 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7243
7244* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7245 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7246 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7247 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7248 programs already written to use it.)
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7249
7250* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7251 constants.
7252
7253* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7254 with 4.4 BSD.
7255
7256* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7257 a given effective group ID.
7258
7259* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7260 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7261 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7262 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7263
7264* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 7265 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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7266 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7267 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7268 doing the same thing.
7269
7270* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7271 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7272
7273* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 7274 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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7275
7276* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7277
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7278* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7279 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7280 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 7281 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 7282 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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7283
7284* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7285 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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7286
7287* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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7288 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7289 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7290 function.
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7291
7292* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7293
7294* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7295 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7296 strings.
7297
7298* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7299 and writing the utmp file.
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7300
7301* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7302 Thorsten Kukuk.
7303
7304* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7305 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7306 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7307
7308* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7309 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7310
7311* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7312 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7313 specification.
7314
7315* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7316 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7317 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7318 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7319
7320* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7321 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7322 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7323
7324* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7325 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7326 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7327 expression matcher.
7328
7329* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7330 functionality.
7331
7332* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7333 by Ulrich Drepper.
7334
7335* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7336
7337* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7338 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7339 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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7340\f
7341Version 1.09
7342
7343* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7344
7345* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7346 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7347
7348* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7349 want to put themselves in the background.
7350
7351* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7352 run without an operating system.
7353
7354* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7355 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7356
7357* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7358 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7359
7360* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7361
7362* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7363 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7364 have YP (aka NIS).
7365
7366* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7367 conventions.
7368
7369* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7370 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7371\f
7372Version 1.08
7373
7374* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7375 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7376 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7377
7378* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7379 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7380
7381* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7382 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7383
7384* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7385
7386* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7387
7388* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7389 compatibility.
7390
7391* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7392 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7393 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7394
7395* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7396
7397* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7398 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7399 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7400
7401* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7402 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7403 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7404 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7405 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7406 on a block).
7407
7408* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7409 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7410 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7411 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7412 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7413 cross-compiler.
7414
7415* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7416 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7417\f
7418Version 1.07
7419
7420* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7421 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7422
7423* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7424 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7425 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7426
7427* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7428 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7429 address of the last character written.
7430
7431* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7432 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7433
7434* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7435 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7436
7437* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7438 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7439 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7440 you dereference this pointer.
7441
7442* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7443 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7444
7445* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7446 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7447 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7448 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7449
7450* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7451 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7452 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7453 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7454\f
7455Version 1.06
7456
7457* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7458 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7459 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7460 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 7461 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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7462
7463* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7464
7465* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7466
7467* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7468 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7469
7470* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7471 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7472
7473* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7474 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7475
7476* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7477 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7478 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7479 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7480 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7481
7482* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7483 to the error code in `errno'.
7484
7485* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7486 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7487 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7488 malloc'd string.
7489
7490* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7491 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7492 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7493
7494* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7495 uniquely-named temporary file.
7496\f
7497Version 1.05
7498
7499* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7500 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7501 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7502
7503* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7504 characters.
7505
7506* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7507 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7508
7509* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7510\f
7511Version 1.04
7512
7513* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7514 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7515 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7516 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7517
7518* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7519 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7520 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7521
7522* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7523 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7524
7525* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7526 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7527 made itself into a shared library.
7528
7529* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7530 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7531
7532* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7533 with limited length.
7534
7535* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7536
7537* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7538
7539* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7540
7541* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7542 function for traversing a directory tree.
7543
7544* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7545 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7546 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7547 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7548
7549* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7550 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7551
7552* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7553
7554* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7555 things to your strings.
7556
7557* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7558
7559* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7560 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7561 supporting those systems.
7562
7563* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7564 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7565 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7566 configuration files.
7567
7568* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7569 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7570
7571* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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7572 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7573 in <strings.h>.)
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7574
7575* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7576 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7577 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7578 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7579 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7580 required storage is not available.
7581
7582* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7583 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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7584
7585* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7586 latest files released from Berkeley.
7587\f
7588----------------------------------------------------------------------
9fcdec73 7589Copying conditions:
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7590
7591 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
7592 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
7593 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
7594 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
7595
7596 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
7597 of this document, or of portions of it,
7598 under the above conditions, provided also that they
7599 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
7600\f
7601Local variables:
7602version-control: never
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