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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
6d7e8eda 2Copyright (C) 1992-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.38
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10Major new features:
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12* When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
13 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
14 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
15 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
16 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
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17 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
18 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
19 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
20 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf.
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22* PRIb* and PRIB* macros from C2X have been added to <inttypes.h>.
23
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24* A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
25 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
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27* Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
28 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
29
30 - x86_64-gnu
31
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32Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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34* In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
35 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
36 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
37 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
38 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
39 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
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41* The --disable-experimental-malloc is no longer available. The per-thread
42 cache can still be disable per-application using tunables
43 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
44
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45* The configure option --enable-tunables has been removed. The tunable
46 feature is now always enabled.
47
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48Changes to build and runtime requirements:
49
50 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
51
52Security related changes:
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54 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
55 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
56 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
57 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
58 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
59 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
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61The following bugs are resolved with this release:
62
63 [The release manager will add the list generated by
64 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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66Version 2.37
67
68Major new features:
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70* The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
71 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
72 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
73 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
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75Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
76
90d58fe8 77* The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
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78 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
79 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
80 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
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82Security related changes:
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84 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
85 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
86 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
87 portion of the contents of the heap.
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88
89The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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91 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
92 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
93 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
94 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
95 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
96 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
97 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
98 redirection headers
99 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
100 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
101 first if in a cycle
102 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
103 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
104 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
105 gethostbyname and other functions
106 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
107 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
108 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
109 wrong family
110 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
111 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
112 failed!
113 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
114 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
115 FAIL_UNSUPPORTED
116 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
117 segfault on alpha
118 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
119 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
120 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
121 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
122 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
123 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
124 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
125 reuses namespace
126 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
127 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
128 futexes on qemu-user
129 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
130 printed
131 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
132 whitespace
133 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
134 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
135 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
136 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
137 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
138 file support
139 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
140 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
141 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
142 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
143 cache is enabled
144 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
145 BMI2 instructions
146 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
147 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
148 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
149 platforms
150 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
151 optimizations
152 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
153 thousands grouping
154 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
155 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
156 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
157 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
158 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
159 aux.S: No such file or directory)
160 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
161 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
162 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
163 coincides with offset change
164 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
165 length in fortify mode
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167Version 2.36
168
169Major new features:
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171* Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
172 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
173 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
174 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
175 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
176 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
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178* On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
179 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
180 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on tranditional Unix systems.
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182* On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
183 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
184 by the pidfd.
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186* On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
187 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
188 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
189 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
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191* The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
192 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
193 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
194 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
195 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
196 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
197 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
198 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
199 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
200 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
201 validation by applications.
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203* On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
204 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
205 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
206 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
78a408ee 207 with namespaces.
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209* localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
210 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
211 unpredictable output.
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213* Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
214 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
215 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
216 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
217 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
218 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
219 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
220 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
221
6f4e0fcf 222* The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
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223 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
224 quality randomness from the kernel.
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3a380458 226* Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
227 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
228 ABI is supported:
229
230 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
231
232 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
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234Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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236* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
237 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
238 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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240* The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
241 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
242 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
243 when libc.so is issued directly.
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245* On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
246
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247The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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249 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
250 return different result with versioned "foo"
251 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
252 mess
253 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
254 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
255 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
256 calls dlclose
257 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
258 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
259 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
260 enforced
261 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
262 deadlock
263 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
264 format
265 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
266 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
267 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
268 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
269 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
270 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
271 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
272 other standards.
273 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
274 from the stack
275 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
276 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
277 (breaks test isolation)
278 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
279 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
280 __convert_scm_timestamps
281 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
282 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
283 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
284 missing libraries
285 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyone 2038
286 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
287 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
288 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
289 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
290 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
291 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
292 SUCCESS=MERGE
293 [28936] build: nm: No such file
294 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
295 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
296 clobbers errno
297 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
298 bench.
299 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
300 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
301 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
302 /proc/self/fd/
303 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
304 on ENOENT and EACCES
305 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
306 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
307 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
308 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
309 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
310 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
311 is promoted to global scope
312 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
313 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
314 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
315 broke ld.so
316 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
317 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
318 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
319 failure
320 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
321 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
322 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
323 before '__fortified_attr_access'
324 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
325 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
326 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
327 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
328 value for filling after \0
329 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
330 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
331 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
332 aware
333 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
334 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
335 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
336 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
337 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
338 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
339 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
340 line 184
341 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
342 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
343 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
344 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
345 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
346 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
347 missing on microblaze with largefile
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351Major new features:
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353* Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
354 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
355 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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357* Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
358 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
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360* Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
361 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
362 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
363 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
364 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
365 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
366 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
367 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
368 glibc, and must be installed.
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370* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
371 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
372 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
373
374 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
375 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
376
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377 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
378 fMxfmafNx functions.
379
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380* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
381 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
382 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
383 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
384 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
385 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
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387* <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
388 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
389 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
390 M_SQRT1_2f.
391
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392* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
393 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
394
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395* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
396 macro in <tgmath.h>.
397
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398* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
399
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400* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
401 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
402 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
403
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404* A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
405 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
406 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
407 object dependency cases.
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409* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
410 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
411 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
412 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
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414* ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
415 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
416 return value is only used for its boolean status.
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418* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
419 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
420 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
421 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
422 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
423 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
424 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
425 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
426 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
427 Restartable Sequences.
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429* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
430 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
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432* All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
433 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
434 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
435 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
436 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
437 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
438 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
439 configuration.
440
5f6d8d97 441* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
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442 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
443 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
444 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
445 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
446 huge pages.
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448* The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
449 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
450
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451* The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
452 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
453 address.
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455* Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
456 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
457 ABI is supported:
458
459 - or1k-linux-gnu
460
461 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
462 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
463
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464* A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
465 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
466 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
467 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
468 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
469
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470* On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
471 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
472
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473* The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
474 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
475 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
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478 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
479 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
480 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
481 bounds).
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484 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
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489 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
490 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
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493 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
494
495 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
496 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
497
498 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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503 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
504 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
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507 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
508 catching coredumps and backtraces.
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511 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
512 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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515 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
516 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
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519 support prelink PIE binaries.
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524 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
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526 new dynamic loader supporing the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
527 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
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530 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
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532 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
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534Security related changes:
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536 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
537 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
538 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
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540 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
541 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
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544 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
545 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
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548 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
549 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
550 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
551 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
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555 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
556 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
557 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
558 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
559 many dsos
560 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
561 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
562 degradation
563 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
564 loaded with dlmopen
565 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
566 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
567 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
568 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
569 ID whose lifetime has not ended
570 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
571 (CVE-2022-23219)
572 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
573 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
574 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
575 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
576 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
577 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
578 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
579 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
580 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
581 --enable-initfini-array
582 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
583 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
584 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
585 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
586 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
587 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
588 empty
589 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
590 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
591 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
592 built with ld.lld
593 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
594 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
595 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
596 2.34
597 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
598 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
599 robustness
600 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
601 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
602 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
603 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
604 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
605 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
606 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
607 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
608 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
609 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
610 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
611 file
612 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
613 only dynamic section
614 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
615 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
616 recvmsg()
617 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
618 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
619 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
620 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
621 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
622 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
623 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
624 C2X
625 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
626 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
627 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
628 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
629 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
630 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
631 globalmod1.so
632 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
633 systems with TIMESIZE=64
634 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
635 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
636 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
637 spurious NUL character on state reset
638 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
639 incorrect
640 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
641 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
642 execution test
643 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
644 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
645 hppa
646 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
647 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
648 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
649 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
650 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
651 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
652 crashes
653 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
654 binutils changes
655 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
656 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
657 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
658 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
659 is not useful
660 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
661 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
662 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
663 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
664 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
665 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
666 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
667 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
668 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
669 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
670 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
671 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
672 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
673 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
674 (CVE-2022-23218)
675 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
676 (CVE-2021-3999)
677 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
678 results (CVE-2021-3998)
679 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
680 in Systemtap probes
681 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
682 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
683 x86-64-baseline
684 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
685 with no closing ]
686 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
687 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
688 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
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693Major new features:
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696 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
697 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
698 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
699 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
700 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
701 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
702 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
703 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
704 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
705 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
706 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
707 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
708 potentially exposing application bugs.
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711 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
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713 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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715* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
716 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
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719 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
720 Arm SVE.
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723 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
724 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
725
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727 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
728 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
729 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
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734 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
735 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
736 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
737 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
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740 --disable-scv configure option.
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743 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
744 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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746 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
747 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
748 version of 5.1.
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751 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
752 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
753 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
754 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
755 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
756 that directory.
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759 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
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762 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
763 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
764 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
765 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
766 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
767 is currently a GNU extension.
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770 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
771
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774 although it is also present in other systems.
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777 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
778 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
779 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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782 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
783 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
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788 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
789 instead.
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792 programs should use the equivalent standard function
793 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
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796 programs should use the equivalent standard function
797 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
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800 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
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803
804* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
805 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
806 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
807 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
808 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
809 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
810 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
811 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
812 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
813 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
814 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
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817 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
818 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
819 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
820 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
821 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
822 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
823 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
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826 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
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829 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
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831 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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834 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
835 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
836 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
837 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
838 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
839 upgrade or downgrade process.
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842 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
843 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
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846 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
847 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
848 no longer have any effect on malloc.
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851 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
852 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
853 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
854 this functionality back.
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857 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
858 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
859 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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862 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
863 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
864 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
865 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
866 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
867 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
868 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
869 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
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874 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
875 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
876 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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878Security related changes:
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881 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
882 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
883 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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885 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
886 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
887 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
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890 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
891 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
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896 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
897 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
898 given integer (closefrom)
899 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
900 name containing multi-byte character(s)
901 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
902 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
903 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
904 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
905 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
906 random thread
907 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
908 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
909 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
910 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
911 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
912 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
913 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
914 manual is incorrect
915 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
916 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
917 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
918 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
919 pthread_create and dlopen
920 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
921 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
922 when non-root user changes priority
923 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
924 dlopen
925 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
926 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
927 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
928 ordered correctly
929 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
930 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
931 data.
932 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
933 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
934 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
935 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
936 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
937 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
938 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
939 the right free implementation
940 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
941 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
942 shm_open to pick wrong directory
943 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
944 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
945 protector=all)
946 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
947 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
948 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
949 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
950 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
951 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
952 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
953 uninitialized
954 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
955 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
956 system calls
957 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
958 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
959 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
960 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
961 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
962 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
963 deployments
964 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
965 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
966 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
967 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
968 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
969 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
970 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
971 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
972 is present
973 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
974 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
975 protector=all
976 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
977 information for the current directory
978 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
979 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
980 dl_runtime_resolve_*
981 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
982 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
983 containers
984 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
985 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
986 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
987 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
988 INT_MAX
989 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
990 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
991 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
992 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
993 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
994 tries resolving them lazily
995 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
996 libthread_db
997 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
998 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
999 argument
1000 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1001 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1002 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1003 not set ENOMEM
1004 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1005 randomization
1006 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1007 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1008 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1009 IS_ERR_VALUE
1010 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1011 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1012 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1013 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1014 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1015 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1016 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1017 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1018 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1019 with n >= 0x80000000
1020 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1021 thread never allocated anything
1022 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1023 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1024 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1025 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1026 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1027 on older kernels
1028 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1029 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1030 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1031 AMD64 cpus
1032 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1033 terminator
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1038Major new features:
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1040* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1041 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1042 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
1043
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1045 to change argv[0] string.
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1048 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1049 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1050 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1051 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1052 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1053 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1054 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1055 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1056
1057* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1058 information and library search path diagnostics.
1059
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1061 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1062 larger than fit in an integer.
1063
96203980 1064* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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1066* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1067 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1068
1069 - rv32imac ilp32
1070 - rv32imafdc ilp32
1071 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
1072
1073 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1074 2.28.
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1077 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1078 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1079 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1080 fortification.
1081
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1082Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1083
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1085 mallinfo2 instead.
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1087* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
1088 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1089 Instead, the default implementation is used.
1090
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1092 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1093 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1094 prlimit.
1095
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1096* Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
1097 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1098 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
1099
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1101 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1102 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1103 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1104 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1105 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
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1108 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1109 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1110 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1111 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1112 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1113 loaded.
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1118 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
1119 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
1120 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
1121 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1122 perform any adjustments.
1123
1124* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1125 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1126 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1127 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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1132
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934c48a0 1134 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
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1136 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1137 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1138
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1139 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1140 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1141 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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1143 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1144 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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1147 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
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1152 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1153 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1154 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1155 AT_EACCESS
1156 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
597d0267 1157 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
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1159 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1160 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1161 with GCC
1162 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1163 stack-protector=all
1164 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1165 cases
1166 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1167 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1168 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1169 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1170 changing gnuc version
1171 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1172 incorrect
1173 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1174 bits
1175 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1176 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1177 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1178 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1179 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1180 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
1181 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1182 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1183 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1184 too much stack space
1185 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1186 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1187 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1188 with optimization.
1189 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1190 anymore
1191 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1192 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1193 non-FMA4 system
1194 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1195 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1196 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1197 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1198 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1199 getaddrinfo
1200 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1201 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1202 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1203 fault
1204 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1205 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1206 at the end of a memory mapping
1207 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1208 by the caller to the kernel
1209 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1210 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1211 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1212 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1213 monotonic clocks
1214 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1215 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1216 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1217 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1218 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1219 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1220 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1221 one element
1222 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1223 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1224 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1225 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1226 lazy bound
1227 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1228 PI mutexes
1229 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1230 not safe
1231 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1232 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1233 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1234 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1235 platform
1236 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1237 startup code
1238 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1239 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1240 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1241 protected
1242 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1243 only since 2.31
1244 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1245 locked
1246 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1247 aligned
1248 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1249 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1250 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1251 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1252 detection logic
1253 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1254 pclose(3))
1255 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1256 setup
1257 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1258 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1259 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1260 work
1261 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1262 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1263 [27177] dynamic-link:
1264 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1265 work
1266 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1267 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1268 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1269 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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1273
1274Major new features:
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1277 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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1279
1280* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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1282* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1283 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1284 Three ABIs are supported:
1285
1286 - arc-linux-gnu
1287 - arc-linux-gnuhf
1288 - arceb-linux-gnu
1289
4d3a77c7 1290 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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1291 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
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1294 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1295
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1299 this option.
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1302 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1303 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1304
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1307 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
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1310 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1311 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1312 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1313 libpthread.
1314
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1317 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1318 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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1320 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1321
1322 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1323 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1324
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1327 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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1329 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1330 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1331
1332 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1333 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
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1336 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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1338 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1339 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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1341 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1342 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1343 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1344 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1345 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1346 BTI compatible.
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1351 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1352 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1353 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1354 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1355 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1356 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
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1359 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1360 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1361 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1362 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1363 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1364 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 1365 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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1369 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1370 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1371 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1372 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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1375 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1376 was not declared in any header file.
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1378* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1379 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1380 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1381 sigaction functions instead.
1382
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1383* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1384 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1385
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1386* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1387 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1388 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1389 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1390 strsignal instead.
1391
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1392* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1393 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 1394 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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1395 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1396 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1397
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1398* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1399 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1400 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1401 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1402
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1403* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1404 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1405 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1406 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1407 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1408 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1409 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1410
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1411* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1412 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1413 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1414 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1415 flavor of secure RPC.)
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1417* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1418 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1419 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1420 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1421 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1422 object, to enable the hooks.
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1425 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1426 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1427 LDAP.
1428
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1431* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1432 long double redirects.
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1434Security related changes:
1435
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1436 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1437 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1438 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1439
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1440 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1441 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1442 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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1444 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1445 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1446
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1447 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1448 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1449 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1450 TALOS-2020-1019).
1451
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1454 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1455 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1456 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1457 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1458 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1459 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1460 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1461 filtee has constructor
1462 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1463 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1464 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1465 character entities for infinity & pi
1466 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1467 segfaults in applications
1468 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1469 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
1470 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1471 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1472 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1473 function with -mlong-double-64
1474 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1475 binding
1476 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1477 ld.so.cache
1478 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1479 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1480 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1481 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1482 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1483 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1484 linker
1485 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1486 dynamically loaded dsos
1487 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1488 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1489 access
1490 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1491 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1492 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1493 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1494 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1495 stale configuration forever
1496 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1497 (CVE-2020-10029)
1498 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1499 defaults to PIE
1500 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1501 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1502 (CVE-2020-6096)
1503 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1504 on 32 bit and old kernel
1505 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1506 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1507 Occitan
1508 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1509 amount of sigset_t bytes
1510 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1511 strings
1512 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1513 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1514 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1515 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1516 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1517 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1518 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1519 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1520 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1521 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1522 size_t
1523 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1524 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1525 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1526 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1527 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1528 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1529 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1530 cpu=power9
1531 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1532 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1533 segfault
1534 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1535 exiting detached thread
1536 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1537 for x32
1538 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1539 ERANGE
1540 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1541 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1542 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1543 dependencies in audit mode
1544 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1545 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1546 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1547 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1548 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1549 input
1550 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1551 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1552 preserve r2
1553 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1554 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1555 variables
1556 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1557 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1558 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1559 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1560 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1561 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1562 corruption in memset
1563
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1565Version 2.31
1566
1567Major new features:
1568
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1569* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1570 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1571 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1572 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1573 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1574 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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1576* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1577 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1578 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1579 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1580
69ca4b54 1581* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 1582 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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1583 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1584
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1585* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1586
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1587* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1588 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1589 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1590 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1591 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1592 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1593 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1594 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1595
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1596Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1597
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1598* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1599 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1600 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1601 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1602 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1603 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
0b8c2f95 1604
12cbde1d 1605* The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
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1606 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1607 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1608
1609* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1610 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1611 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1612 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1613
1614* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1615 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1616 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1617 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1618 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1619 made this no longer practical.
1620
1621 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1622 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1623 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1624 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1625 release.)
1626
1627 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1628 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1629 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1630
1631 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1632 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1633 using clock_gettime instead.
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1635* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1636 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1637 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1638 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1639 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1640
1641 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1642 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1643 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1644 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1645
1646 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1647 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1648 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1649 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1650 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1651 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1652
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1653 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1654 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1655 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1656 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1657 offset API.
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1659* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1660 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1661 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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1663 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1664 configurations.
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1666* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1667 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1668 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1669 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1670 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1671
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1673 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1674 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1675 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1676 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1677 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1678 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1679 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1680
1681 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1682 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1683
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1684* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1685 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1686 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1687 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1688 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1689 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1690
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1691Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1692
a1bd5f86 1693* It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
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1694 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1695 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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1697* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1698 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1699 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1700
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1701Security related changes:
1702
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1703 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1704 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1705
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1706 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1707 environment variable during program execution after a security
1708 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1709 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1710 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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1712The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1714 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1715 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1716 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1717 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1718 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1719 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1720 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1721 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1722 linking failure
1723 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1724 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1725 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1726 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1727 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1728 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1729 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1730 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1731 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1732 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1733 7408-2005
1734 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1735 with localedef
1736 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1737 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1738 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1739 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1740 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1741 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1742 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1743 utmp entries
1744 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1745 ABSOLUTE ABI
1746 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1747 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1748 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1749 (stringop-overflow error)
1750 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1751 functions other can lead to crashes
1752 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1753 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1754 unconditionally
1755 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1756 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1757 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1758 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1759 still can fail with an error
1760 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1761 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1762 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1763 initialized correctly
1764 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1765 -frewrite-includes
1766 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1767 value to an unsigned
1768 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1769 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1770 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1771 protection
1772 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1773 ifunc variant.
1774 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1775 al. for Clang++
1776 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1777 (Slovenian)
1778 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1779 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1780 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1781 with -std=c11
1782 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1783 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1784 part
1785 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1786 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1787 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1788 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1789 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1790 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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1793Version 2.30
1794
1795Major new features:
1796
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1798 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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1799 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1800
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1801* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1802 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1804* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1805 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1806 to the callback function.
1807
51ea67d5 1808* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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1810* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1811 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1812 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
1813
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1815
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1816* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1817 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1818 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1819 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1820 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1821
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1822* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1823 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1824 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1825 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1826 link time reference, is gone.
1827
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1828* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1829 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1830 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1831 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1832 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1833 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1834 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1835 the clock choice at initialization time).
1836
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1837* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1838 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1839 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1840
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1844 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1845 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1846 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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1848 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1849 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1850 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1851 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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1854 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1855 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1856 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1857 since glibc 2.17.
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1859* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1860 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
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1862* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1863 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
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1865* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1866 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1867
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1868* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1869 BIND_NOW flag.
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1872 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1873 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
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1875* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1876 header have been removed.
1877
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1878* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1879 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1880 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1881 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
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1886
1887 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1888 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1890Security related changes:
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1892 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1893 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1894 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1895 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1896 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1897 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1898 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1900 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1901 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1902 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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1906 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1907 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1908 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1909 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1910 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1911 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1912 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1913 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1914 invalid input drops valid char
1915 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1916 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1917 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1918 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1919 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1920 malloc.h.
1921 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1922 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1923 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1924 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1925 functions
1926 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1927 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1928 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1929 for long double = double
1930 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1931 long double = double
1932 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1933 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1934 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1935 long timeouts
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1937 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1938 checking for NULL.
1939 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1940 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1941 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1942 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1943 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1944 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1945 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1946 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1947 not the default "nor"
1948 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1949 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1950 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1951 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1952 compiler barriers.
1953 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1954 unnecessary librt dependencies
1955 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1956 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1957 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1958 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1959 unsorted chunk
1960 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1961 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1962 to R_SPARC_H44
1963 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1964 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1965 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1966 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1967 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1968 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1969 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1970 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1971 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1972 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1973 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1974 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1975 was not used
1976 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1977 tests
1978 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1979 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1980 time_t changes
1981 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1982 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1983 kernels and break testing
1984 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1985 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1986 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1987 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1988 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1989 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1990 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1991 -O3 -march=skylake
1992 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1993 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1994 crash
1995 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1996 linked glibc
1997 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1998 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1999 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2000 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2001 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2002 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2003 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2004 always implemented in the same library
2005 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2006 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2007 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2008 testroot
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2011Version 2.29
2012
2013Major new features:
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2016 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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2018* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2019 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2020 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2021 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2022 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2023 configured location.
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2027* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2028 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2029
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2030* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2031 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2032 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2033 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2034 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2035 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2036 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2037 process actually does not use HTM).
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2039* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2040 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2041 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2042 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2043 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2044 of the same name.
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2046* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2047 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2048 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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2052* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2053 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2054 supported:
2055 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2056 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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2058* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2059 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2060 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2061 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2062 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2063 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2064 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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2066* As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2067 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2068 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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2070Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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2072* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2073 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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2075* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2076 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2077 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2078 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2079
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2080* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2081 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2082 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2083 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2084 structures.
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2086* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2087 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2088 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2089 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2090 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2091 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2092
2093 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2094 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2095 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2096 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2097 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2098
2099 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2100 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2101 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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2104
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2107* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2108 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2109
2110 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2111 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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2115 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2116 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2117 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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2120 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2121 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2122 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2123 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2124
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2125 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2126 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2127 or command injection issues in applications.
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2131 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2132 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2133 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2134 thousands
2135 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2136 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2137 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2138 --param options)
2139 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2140 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2141 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2142 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2143 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2144 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2145 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2146 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2147 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2148 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2149 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2150 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2151 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2152 pointer argument is non-NULL
2153 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2154 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2155 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2156 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2157 multithreads call popen
2158 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2159 and pthread_create fails.
2160 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2161 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2162 constructor
2163 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2164 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2165 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2166 source tree
2167 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2168 float
2169 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2170 one error
2171 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2172 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2173 linker
2174 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2175 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2176 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2177 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2178 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2179 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2180 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2181 filesystems
2182 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2183 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2184 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2185 functions
2186 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2187 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2188 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2189 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2190 have wrong type
2191 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2192 wrong type
2193 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2194 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2195 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2196 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2197 threads
2198 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2199 start.S
2200 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2201 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2202 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2203 powerpc64le
2204 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2205 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2206 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2207 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2208 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2209 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2210 strftime
2211 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2212 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2213 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2214 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2215 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2216 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2217 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2218 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2219 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2220 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2221 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2222 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2223 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2224 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2225 tcache size
2226 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2227 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2228 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2229 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2230 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2231 (CVE-2018-19591)
2232 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2233 nearest rounding mode
2234 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2235 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2236 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2237 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2238 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2239 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2240 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2241 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2242 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2243 error
2244 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2245 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2246 using GCC 8
2247 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2248 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2249 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2250 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2251 ppc64le
2252 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2253 expected result
2254 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2255 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
2256 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2257 sigaltstack
2258 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2259 answers will be rejected)
2260 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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2264
2265Major new features:
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2267* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2268 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2269 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2270 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2271 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2272 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2273 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2274 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2275 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2276 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2277 archive or binary locales.
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2279* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2280 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2281 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2282 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2283 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2284 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2285 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2286 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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2287 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2288 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2289 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2290 validated for i686.
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2292* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2293 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2294 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2295 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2296 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2297 field) to indicate such support is required.
2298
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2299* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2300 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2301 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2302
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2303* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2304 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2305
2306 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2307 fMxaddfNx functions.
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2309 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2310 fMxsubfNx functions.
2311
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2312 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2313 fMxmulfNx functions.
2314
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2315 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2316 fMxdivfNx functions.
2317
e607a352 2318* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 2319 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 2320 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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2321 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2322 and Kashubian.
c553cd6f 2323
61c4aad7 2324* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 2325 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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2327* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2328 patches.
2329
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2330* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2331 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2332 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2333 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2334 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2335 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2336 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2337 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2338
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2339* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2340 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2341 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2342 the fstatat64 function.
2343
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2344* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2345 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2346 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2347 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2348 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2349 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2350 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2351 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2352 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2353
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2354* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2355 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2356 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2357 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2358 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2359 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2360 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2361 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2362 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2363 results in a load failure now.
2364
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2365* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2366 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2367 <threads.h>:
2368
2369 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2370 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2371
2372 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2373 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2374
2375 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2376
2377 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2378 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2379
2380 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2381
2382 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2383
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2384Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2385
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2386* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2387 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2388 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2389
2390* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2391 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2392 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2393 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2394 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2395 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2396
2397* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2398 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2399 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2400 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2401 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2402 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2403 (Bug #1190.)
2404
2405* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2406 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2407 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2408 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2409 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2410 further explanation.
2411
2412 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2413 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2414 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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2416* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2417
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2418* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2419 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2420 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2421
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2422* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2423 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2424 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2425 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2426
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2427* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2428 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2429 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2430 for this function instead.
2431
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2432* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2433 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2434 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2435
2436* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2437 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2438 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2439 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2440
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2441* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2442 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2443 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2444 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2445 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2446
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2447* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2448 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2449 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2450 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2451 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2452 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2453 such as libgcrypt.
2454
2455* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2456 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2457 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2458 enabled.
2459
2460* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2461 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2462 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2463
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2464* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2465 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2466 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2467 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2468 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2469 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2470
2471 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2472 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2473 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2474 behavior in a future release.
2475
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2477
f2873d2d 2478 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
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2480Security related changes:
2481
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2482 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2483 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2484 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2485 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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2487 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2488 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2489
2490 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2491 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2492 Izbyshev.
2493
2494 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2495 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2496 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2497
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2498The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2499
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2500 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2501 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2502 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2503 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2504 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2505 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2506 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2507 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2508 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2509 14651
2510 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2511 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2512 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2513 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2514 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2515 conversion is given
2516 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2517 date
2518 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2519 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2520 scope with -O1 and higher
2521 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2522 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2523 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2524 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2525 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2526 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2527 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2528 horrible machine code)
2529 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2530 last constant.
2531 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2532 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2533 symbols
2534 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2535 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2536 defined
2537 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2538 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2539 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2540 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2541 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2542 fpscr.c'
2543 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2544 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2545 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2546 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2547 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2548 the base address
2549 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2550 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2551 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2552 open_verify
2553 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2554 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2555 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2556 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2557 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2558 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2559 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2560 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2561 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2562 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2563 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2564 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2565 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2566 dlopen
2567 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2568 AT_SECURE=1
2569 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2570 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2571 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2572 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2573 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2574 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2575 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2576 for Spanish with CLDR
2577 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2578 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2579 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2580 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2581 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2582 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2583 es_BO
2584 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2585 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
2586 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2587 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2588 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2589 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2590 dlopen failures
2591 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2592 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2593 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2594 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2595 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2596 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2597 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2598 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2599 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2600 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2601 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2602 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2603 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2604 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2605 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2606 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2607 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2608 makecontext
2609 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2610 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2611 required
2612 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2613 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2614 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2615 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2616 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2617 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2618 disabled
2619 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2620 failure
2621 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2622 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2623 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2624 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2625 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2626 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2627 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2628 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2629 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2630 and libc build with -Os)
2631 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2632 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2633 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2634 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2635 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2636 that changes /etc/passwd
2637 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2638 (CVE-2018-11237)
2639 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2640 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2641 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2642 posix/regcomp.c
2643 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2644 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2645 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2646 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2647 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2648 AT_SECURE
2649 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2650 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2651 parser.c
2652 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2653 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2654 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2655 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2656 directed rounding
2657 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2658 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2659 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2660 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2661 lookup
2662 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2663 interposition
2664 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2665 DSO boundaries.
2666 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2667 <linux/time.h>
2668 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2669 checking
2670 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2671 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2672 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2673 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2674 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2675 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2676 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2677 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2678 processors
2679 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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2682Version 2.27
2683
2684Major new features:
2685
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2686* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2687 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
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2689 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2690 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2691 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2692 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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2693 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2694 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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2698 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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2700* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2701
4cf82d23 2702* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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2704* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2705 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2706 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2707 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2708 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2709 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2710 from a security and performance perspective.
2711
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2712* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2713 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2714 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2715 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2716
81325b12 2717* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
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2718 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2719 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2720 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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2721 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2722
a23aa5b7 2723* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 2724 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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2725 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2726 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2727 _Float128.
2728
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2729* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2730 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2731 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 2732
4bab0224 2733* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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2735* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2736 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2737 pkey_get.
2738
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2739* The copy_file_range function was added.
2740
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2741* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2742
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2743* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2744 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2745 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2746
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2747* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2748 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2749 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2750 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2751 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2752 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2753 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2754
2755 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2756 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2757 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2758 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2759 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2760 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2761 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2762
2763 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2764 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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2765 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2766 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2767 respectively.
2768
2769 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2770 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2771 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2772 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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2773
2774 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2775 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2776 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2777
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2778 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2779 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 2780 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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2782* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2783 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2784 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2785
2786 - rv64imac lp64
2787 - rv64imafdc lp64
2788 - rv64imafdc lp64d
2789
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2790Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2791
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2792* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2793 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 2794 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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2795 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2796 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2797 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2798 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2799 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2800 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2801 fix this.
2802
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2803* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2804 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2805 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2806
2fc21aaa
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2807* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2808 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2809 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2810 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2811 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2812 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2813 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2814 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2815 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2816 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2817 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2818 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2819 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2820 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2821 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2822 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2823 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2824 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2825 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2826 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2827 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2828 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2829 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2830 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2831 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2832 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2833
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2834* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2835 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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2837* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2838 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2839 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2840 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2841 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2842 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2843 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2844
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2845* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2846 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2847 exp10l for these functions instead.
2848
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2849* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2850 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2851 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2852
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2853* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2854 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2855 ignored.
2856
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2857* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2858 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2859 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2860 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2861
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2862* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2863 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2864
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2865* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2866 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2867
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2868* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2869 programs.
2870
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2871* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2872
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2873* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2874 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2875 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2876 instead.
2877
2878 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2879 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2880 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2881 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2882 use, but predates the bits convention.
2883
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2884Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2885
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2886* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2887 subdirectory.
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2888
2889Security related changes:
2890
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2891 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2892 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2893 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2894 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2895 script.)
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2897 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2898 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2899 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2900 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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2902 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2903 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2904 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2905 of service.
2906
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2907 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2908 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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2909 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2910
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2911 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2912 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2913 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2914 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2915
8a0b17e4
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2916 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2917 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2918 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2919 Qualys.
2920
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2921 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2922 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2923 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2924 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2925 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2926
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2927 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2928 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2929 current directory.
2930
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2931 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2932 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2933 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2934
4590634f
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2935 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2936 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2937 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2938
71aa429b
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2939 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2940 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2941 small, instead of NULL.
2942
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2943The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2944
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2945 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2946 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2947 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2948 locale
2949 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2950 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2951 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2952 cases
2953 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2954 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2955 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2956 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2957 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2958 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2959 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2960 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2961 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2962 "Bangla"
2963 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2964 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2965 width Latin characters
2966 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2967 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2968 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2969 letters
2970 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2971 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2972 (CVE-2009-5064)
2973 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2974 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2975 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2976 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2977 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2978 if malloc succeeded
2979 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2980 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2981 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2982 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2983 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2984 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2985 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2986 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2987 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2988 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2989 U+309A
2990 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2991 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2992 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2993 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2994 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2995 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2996 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2997 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2998 for Nicaragua
2999 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3000 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3001 are not found.
3002 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3003 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3004 access
3005 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3006 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3007 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3008 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3009 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3010 __regcall calling convention
3011 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3012 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3013 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3014 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3015 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3016 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3017 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3018 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3019 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3020 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3021 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3022 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3023 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3024 locale
3025 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3026 protector=all
3027 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3028 wcwidth
3029 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3030 consistency check failures
3031 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3032 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3033 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3034 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3035 PIE
3036 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3037 locales
3038 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3039 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3040 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3041 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3042 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3043 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3044 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3045 on memory allocation failure
3046 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3047 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3048 the suspect)
3049 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3050 default (i386)
3051 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3052 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3053 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3054 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3055 instead of EAI_NODATA
3056 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3057 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3058 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3059 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3060 implementation
3061 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3062 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3063 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3064 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3065 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3066 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3067 allocation in syscall loops)
3068 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3069 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3070 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3071 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3072 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3073 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3074 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3075 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3076 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3077 occur with -O3
3078 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3079 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3080 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3081 amounts)
3082 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3083 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3084 niu_NZ
3085 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3086 checks
3087 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3088 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3089 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3090 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3091 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3092 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3093 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3094 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3095 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3096 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3097 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3098 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3099 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3100 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3101 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3102 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3103 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3104 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3105 parsing after OOM
3106 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3107 object
3108 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3109 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3110 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
3111 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3112 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3113 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 3114 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
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3115 ppc64le
3116 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3117 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3118 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3119 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3120 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3121 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3122 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3123 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3124 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3125 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3126 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3127 math_force_eval
3128 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3129 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3130 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3131 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3132 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3133 the svid compat wrapper
3134 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3135 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3136 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3137 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3138 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3139 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3140 --verbose.
3141 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3142 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3143 to 2.26
3144 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3145 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3146 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3147 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3148 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3149 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3150 (CVE-2017-15804)
3151 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3152 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3153 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3154 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3155 failure."
3156 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3157 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3158 -m32
3159 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3160 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3161 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3162 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3163 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3164 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3165 inside the ASCII printable range
3166 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3167 -mlong-double-64
3168 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3169 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3170 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3171 Internet
3172 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3173 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3174 backslash
3175 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3176 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3177 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3178 heaps in an arena
3179 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3180 networking interface
3181 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3182 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3183 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3184 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3185 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3186 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3187 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3188 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3189 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3190 order
3191 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3192 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3193 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3194 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3195 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3196 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3197 same as for Croatian
3198 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3199 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3200 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3201 for initial thread"
3202 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3203 SC_SSIZE_MAX
3204 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3205 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3206 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3207 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3208 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3209 (CVE-2017-1000408)
3210 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3211 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3212 modified in case of success
3213 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3214 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3215 success
3216 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3217 stack-protector=all
3218 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3219 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3220 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3221 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3222 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3223 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3224 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3225 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3226 adding it on top
3227 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3228 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3229 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3230 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3231 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3232 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3233 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3234 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3235 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3236 (CVE-2018-1000001)
3237 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3238 elision and tunables
3239 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3240 "invalid" exception
3241 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3242 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3243 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3244 exception
3245 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3246 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3247 power4
3248 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3249 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3250 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3251 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3252 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3253 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3254 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3255 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3256 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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3259Version 2.26
3260
2b2ccd0c
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3261Major new features:
3262
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3263* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3264 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3265 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3266 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3267 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3268 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3269 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3270
925fac77
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3271* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3272 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 3273 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
a0e52598
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3274 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3275 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3276 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3277 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
58557c22 3278
2b2ccd0c
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3279* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3280 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3281 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 3282
2b2ccd0c 3283* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 3284
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3285 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3286 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3287 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 3288
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3289 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3290 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3291 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3292 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3293 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 3294
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3295 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3296 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3297 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 3298
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3299* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3300 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 3301
2b2ccd0c
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3302* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3303 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3304 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3305 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 3306
2b2ccd0c
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3307* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3308 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3309 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3310 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 3311
2b2ccd0c
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3312* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3313 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3314 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3315 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 3316
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3317* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3318 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3319 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 3320
2b2ccd0c 3321* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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3322 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3323 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3324 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 3325
2b2ccd0c 3326 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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3327 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3328 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3329 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3330 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3331
3332 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3333 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3334 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3335 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3336 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3337 interfaces should be used instead.
f819dbea 3338
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3339Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3340
3341* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3342 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3343 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3344 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3345 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3346 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3347 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3348 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3349
3350* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3351 removed.
3352
3353* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 3354 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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3355 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3356 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3357
3358* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3359 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3360 default.
3361
3362 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3363 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3364 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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3365 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3366 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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3367
3368 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3369 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3370 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3371 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3372
3373* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3374 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3375 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3376 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3377
3378* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3379 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 3380
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3381* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3382 exported by accident.
3383
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3384* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3385 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3386 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3387
3388* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3389 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3390 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3391 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3392
3393* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3394
3395* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3396
3397* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3398 free instead.
3399
3400* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3401 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3402
3403* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3404 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3405
3406* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3407 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3408 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3409 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3410 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3411 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3412 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3413 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3414
3415* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3416 synced with the kernel:
3417
3418 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3419 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3420
3421 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3422 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3423 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3424
3425 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3426 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3427
3428Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3429
3430* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3431 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3432 x86-32 and x86-64.)
3433
7e368000 3434* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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3436* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3437 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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3438
3439 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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3440 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3441 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3442 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 3443 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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3445Security related changes:
3446
e14a2772 3447* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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3448 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3449
3450* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3451 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3452
3453* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3454 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3455 (CVE-2010-3192).
3456
3457* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3458 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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3459
3460The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3461
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3462 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3463 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3464 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3465 fields
3466 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3467 (CVE-2010-3192)
3468 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3469 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3470 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3471 ld.bfd is available
3472 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3473 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3474 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3475 x86 and other generic code
3476 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3477 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3478 incorrect
3479 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3480 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3481 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3482 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3483 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3484 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3485 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3486 resolver
3487 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3488 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3489 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3490 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3491 chillu characters
3492 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3493 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3494 receiving data
3495 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3496 whitespace
3497 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3498 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3499 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3500 for Peru
3501 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3502 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3503 failures consistently
3504 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3505 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3506 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3507 frame-pointer on i386
3508 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3509 register
3510 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3511 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3512 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3513 generic c code is used
3514 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3515 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3516 around 4000
3517 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3518 (CVE-2017-12133)
3519 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3520 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3521 with -lieee
3522 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3523 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3524 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3525 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3526 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3527 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3528 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3529 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3530 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3531 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3532 remove()
3533 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3534 checked for errors.
3535 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3536 new posix_spawn implementation
3537 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3538 leads to lower CPU frequency
3539 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3540 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3541 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3542 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3543 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3544 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3545 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3546 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3547 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3548 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3549 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3550 not support gethostbyname4_r
3551 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3552 switching
3553 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3554 arenas
3555 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3556 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3557 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3558 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3559 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3560 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3561 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3562 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3563 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3564 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3565 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3566 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3567 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3568 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3569 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3570 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3571 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3572 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3573 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3574 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3575 retry value
3576 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3577 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3578 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3579 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3580 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3581 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3582 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3583 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3584 [21537] libc:
3585 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3586 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3587 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3588 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3589 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3590 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3591 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3592 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3593 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3594 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3595 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3596 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3597 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3598 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3599 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3600 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3601 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3602 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3603 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3604 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3605 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3606 issue on x86-64
3607 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3608 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3609 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3610 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3611 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3612 construction
3613 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3614 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3615 between_2_3
3616 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3617 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3618 conditions
3619 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3620 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3621 Hindi Locale
3622 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3623 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3624 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3625 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3626 locale
3627 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3628 leading to relocation crash
3629 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3630 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3631 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3632 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3633 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3634 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3635 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3636 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3637 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3638 locale
3639 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3640 locale
3641 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3642 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3643 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3644 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3645 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3646 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3647 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3648 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3649 strings
3650 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3651 protector=all
3652 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3653 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
3654 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3655 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3656 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3657 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3658 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3659 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3660 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3661 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3662 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3663 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3664 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3665 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3666 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3667 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3668 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3669 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3670 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3671 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3672 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3673 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3674 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3675 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3676 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3677 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3678 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3679 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3680 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3681 with unicode 9.0
3682 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3683 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3684 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3685 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3686 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 3687
d5b396c1 3688\f
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3689Version 2.25
3690
48789000
JM
3691* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3692 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3693 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3694 Library.
e720d3d9 3695
bf91be88
JM
3696* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3697 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 3698 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
bf91be88
JM
3699 the GNU C Library.
3700
412cb261
JM
3701* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3702 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3703 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3704 the GNU C Library.
3705
c0307377
ZW
3706* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3707 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3708 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3709 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3710 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3711 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3712 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3713 will not.
3714
3715 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3716 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3717 many years.
3718
dbab6577
ZW
3719* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3720 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3721 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3722
3723 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3724 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3725 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3726 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3727 problem.
3728
ec94343f 3729* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
c0b43536
JM
3730 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3731 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 3732
a292f45a
JM
3733* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3734 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
5b17fd0d
JM
3735 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3736 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3737 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3738 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3739 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3740 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3741 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3742 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3743 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3744 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 3745
d942e95c
JM
3746* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3747
f82a4bdb
JM
3748 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3749
423c2b9d
JM
3750 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3751 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3752 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 3753
55a38f82
JM
3754 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3755 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3756
525f8039
JM
3757 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3758 fminmagf, fminmagl.
3759
1e7c8fcc
JM
3760 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3761
29cb9293 3762 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 3763
cc6a8d74
JM
3764 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3765 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 3766
eaf5ad0b
JM
3767 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3768
eb3c12c7 3769 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 3770 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 3771
f3b904d9
JM
3772* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3773 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3774
cecbc796
NA
3775* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3776 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3777 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3778
ea1bd74d
ZW
3779* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3780 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3781 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3782 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3783 effects of the memory clear).
3784
b0216d3e
JM
3785* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3786 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3787 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3788 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3789
f3b904d9
JM
3790* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3791 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3792 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3793 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3794 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3795 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 3796
92dcaa3e
FW
3797* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3798 have been added.
3799
705a79f8
FW
3800* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3801 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3802 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3803 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3804 as large as several megabytes.
3805
4d728087
FW
3806* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3807 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3808 been removed.
3809
e863cce5
FW
3810* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3811 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3812 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3813 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3814 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3815 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3816 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3817
7ec47a85
FW
3818* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3819 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3820 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3821 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3822
099191b1 3823* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
FW
3824 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3825 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3826 Internet.
3827
bbe989ee
FW
3828* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3829 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3830 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 3831
b76e0659
FW
3832* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3833 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3834 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3835 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3836
3a2a1d2c
FW
3837* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3838 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3839 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3840 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3841 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3842
be728303
FW
3843* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3844 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3845 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3846 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3847 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3848
6815a33d
FW
3849* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3850 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3851 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3852 did not reflect that.
3853
022dfdce
SL
3854* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3855 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3856 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3857 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3858 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3859 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3860 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3861 'gcc/config.gcc'.
3862
23b5cae1
MG
3863* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3864 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3865 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3866 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3867
7715d3ab
SP
3868* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3869 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3870 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3871 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3872
0cea3587
SP
3873* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3874 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3875 guarantees.
3876
3877* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3878 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3879 make state changes.
3880
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3881Security related changes:
3882
fc82b0a2 3883* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4d047efd
FW
3884 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3885 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3886 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 3887 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 3888
fc82b0a2
FW
3889* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3890 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3891 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3892 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3893 (CVE-2015-5180)
3894
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3895The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3896
fdb724f9 3897 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
3898 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3899 protector-all
3900 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3901 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3902 before it started waiting
3903 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3904 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3905 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3906 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3907 wrong type
3908 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3909 library linked with pthread
3910 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3911 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3912 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3913 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3914 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3915 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3916 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3917 when it shouldnt
3918 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3919 not
3920 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3921 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3922 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3923 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3924 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3925 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3926 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3927 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3928 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3929 termination
3930 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3931 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3932 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3933 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3934 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3935 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3936 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3937 causes a segmentation fault
3938 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3939 linking
3940 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3941 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3942 uninitialized GOT
3943 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3944 versions
3945 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3946 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3947 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3948 is always true.
3949 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3950 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3951 modes
3952 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3953 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3954 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3955 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3956 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3957 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3958 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3959 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3960 libpthread.a
3961 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3962 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3963 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3964 _res_hconf
3965 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3966 information.
3967 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3968 penalty
3969 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3970 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3971 cause transition penalty
3972 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3973 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3974 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3975 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3976 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3977 mcount.oS)
3978 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3979 Checking
3980 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3981 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3982 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3983 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3984 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3985 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3986 multi-arch
3987 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3988 (RES_USEBSTRING)
3989 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3990 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3991 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3992 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3993 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3994 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3995 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3996 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3997 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3998 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3999 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4000 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4001 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4002 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4003 glibc
4004 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4005 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4006 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4007 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4008 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4009 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4010 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4011 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4012 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4013 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4014 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4015 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4016 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4017 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4018 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4019 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4020 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4021 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4022 RES_USE_INET6
4023 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4024 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4025 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4026 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4027 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4028 wrong condition
4029 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4030 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4031 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4032 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4033 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4034 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4035 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4036 clang
4037 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4038 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4039 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4040 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4041 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 4042\f
11fca961
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4043Version 2.24
4044
5b4ecd3f
JM
4045* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4046 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4047 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4048 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4049 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4050 architectures.
4051
b6ebba70
MF
4052* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4053 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4054 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 4055
7584a3f9
FW
4056* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4057 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4058
b49ab5f4
FW
4059* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4060 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4061 instead of “union wait”.
4062
ced8f893
SG
4063* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4064 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4065 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4066 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4067 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4068 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4069 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4070
2ba3cfa1
FW
4071* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4072 API.
4073
b7a9b7b0
MF
4074* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4075 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4076 drop it.
6a54bcda 4077
41a359e2
RS
4078* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4079 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4080 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4081 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4082 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4083 extensions.
4084
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4085Security related changes:
4086
f5b3338d
FW
4087* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4088 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4089 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4090
4ab2ab03
FW
4091* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4092 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4093 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4094 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 4095
5171f307
FW
4096* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4097 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4098 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4099
bc779a1a
FW
4100* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4101 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4102 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4103
fab38231
FW
4104* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4105 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4106 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4107 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4108
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4109The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4110
3c4f81ec
CD
4111 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4112 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4113 of MS-DOS.
4114 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4115 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4116 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4117 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4118 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4119 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4120 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4121 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4122 CLDR data
4123 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4124 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4125 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4126 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4127 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4128 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4129 romanisation
4130 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4131 and +/-
4132 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4133 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4134 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4135 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4136 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4137 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4138 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4139 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4140 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4141 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4142 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4143 all locales
4144 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4145 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4146 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4147 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4148 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4149 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4150 execute
4151 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4152 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4153 -Wsystem-headers
4154 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4155 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4156 Romanian locale data
4157 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4158 symbol
4159 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4160 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4161 language
4162 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4163 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4164 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4165 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4166 machine
4167 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4168 description
4169 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4170 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4171 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4172 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4173 when using RTLD_NEXT
4174 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4175 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4176 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4177 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4178 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4179 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4180 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4181 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4182 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4183 Excavator core
4184 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4185 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4186 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4187 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4188 double range
4189 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4190 part zero incorrect
4191 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4192 equality tests
4193 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4194 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4195 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4196 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4197 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4198 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4199 glibc-2.22
4200 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4201 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4202 'tst-numeric.c'
4203 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4204 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4205 low part
4206 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4207 result
4208 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4209 unaligned stack
4210 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4211 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4212 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4213 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4214 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4215 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4216 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4217 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4218 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4219 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4220 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4221 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4222 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4223 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4224 modes
4225 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4226 server addresses
4227 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4228 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4229 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4230 response to getaddrinfo
4231 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4232 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4233 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4234 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4235 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4236 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4237 sometimes incorrect
4238 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4239 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4240 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4241 record types
4242 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4243 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4244 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4245 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4246 (CVE-2016-3075)
4247 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4248 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4249 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4250 resolving symbols
4251 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4252 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4253 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4254 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4255 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4256 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4257 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4258 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4259 gethosts
4260 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4261 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4262 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4263 (CVE-2016-3706)
4264 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4265 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4266 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4267 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4268 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4269 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4270 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4271 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4272 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4273 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4274 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4275 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4276 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4277 executable
4278 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4279 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4280 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4281 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4282 XPG3
4283 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4284 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4285 (CVE-2016-4429)
4286 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4287 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4288 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4289 AS not supporting AVX512
4290 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4291 sNaN argument
4292 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4293 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4294 argument
4295 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4296 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4297 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4298 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4299 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4300 eax=0x80000001
4301 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4302 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4303 subnormals
4304 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4305 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4306 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4307 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4308 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4309 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4310 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4311 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4312 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4313 input
4314 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4315 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4316 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4317 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4318 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4319 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4320 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4321 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4322 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4323 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4324 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4325 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4326 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4327 double rounding
4328 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4329 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4330 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4331 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4332 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4333 (Only arm/linux)
4334 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4335 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4336 fallbacks
4337 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4338 "invalid" exceptions
4339 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4340 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4341 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4342 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4343 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4344 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4345 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4346 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4347 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 4348\f
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4349Version 2.23
4350
23256f5e
MF
4351* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4352 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4353 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4354 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4355 89, 16061, and 18568.
4356
2359035a
FW
4357* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4358 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4359 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4360 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4361 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4362 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4363 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4364
8b7b7f75
MW
4365* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4366 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4367 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4368
2eecc8af
FW
4369* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4370 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4371 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4372 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4373 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4374 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4375 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4376
a62719ba
FW
4377* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4378 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4379 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4380 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4381 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 4382 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
4383 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4384 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 4385
bc148ca1
MF
4386* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4387 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4388 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4389 independent of the GNU C Library.
4390
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4391* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4392 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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4394* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4395 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4396 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4397 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4398 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4399 Linux kernel.
4400
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4401* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4402 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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4404* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4405 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4406 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4407 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4408 defining their own copy.
4409
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4410* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4411 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4412 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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4414Security related changes:
4415
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4416* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4417 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4418
4419* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4420 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4421 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4422 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4423 (CVE-2015-8777)
4424
4425* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4426 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4427
4428* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4429 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4430
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4431* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4432 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 4433 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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4435* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4436 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4437 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4438 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4439 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4440 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4441 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4442 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4443 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4444 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4445 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4446 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4447 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4448
ad372e29 4449The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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4451 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4452 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4453 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4454 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4455 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4456 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4457 use `mkstemp'
4458 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4459 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
4460 overflow/underflow errors
4461 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4462 overflow/underflow
4463 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4464 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4465 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4466 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4467 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4468 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4469 are not contiguous
4470 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4471 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4472 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4473 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4474 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4475 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4476 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4477 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4478 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4479 all exceptions
4480 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4481 arguments
4482 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4483 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4484 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4485 should include
4486 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4487 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4488 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4489 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4490 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4491 GNU/Linux
4492 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4493 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4494 arguments
4495 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4496 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4497 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4498 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4499 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4500 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4501 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4502 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4503 rounding results
4504 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4505 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4506 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4507 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4508 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4509 fails
4510 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4511 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4512 block boundary
4513 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4514 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4515 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4516 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4517 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4518 4.7?
4519 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4520 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4521 (related to lock elision)
4522 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4523 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4524 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4525 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4526 (CVE-2015-8779)
4527 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4528 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4529 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4530 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4531 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4532 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4533 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4534 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4535 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4536 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4537 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4538 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4539 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4540 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4541 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4542 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4543 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4544 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4545 contains a vector instruction exception.
4546 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4547 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4548 locales
4549 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4550 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4551 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4552 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4553 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4554 missing break ?
4555 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4556 32bit processes
4557 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4558 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4559 infinity
4560 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4561 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4562 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4563 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4564 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4565 be forced unloaded
4566 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4567 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4568 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4569 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4570 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4571 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4572 statically too large
4573 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4574 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4575 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4576 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4577 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4578 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4579 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4580 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4581 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4582 FUTEX_SHARED
4583 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4584 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4585 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4586 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4587 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4588 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4589 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4590 opendir()
4591 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4592 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4593 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4594 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4595 signgam
4596 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4597 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4598 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4599 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4600 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4601 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4602 dependencies
4603 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4604 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4605 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4606 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4607 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4608 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4609 (CVE-2015-8776)
4610 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4611 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4612 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4613 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4614 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4615 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4616 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4617 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4618 contention
4619 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4620 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4621 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4622 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4623 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4624 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4625 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4626 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4627 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4628 rounding modes
4629 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4630 ILP32
4631 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4632 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4633 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4634 threshold
4635 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4636 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4637 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4638 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4639 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4640 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4641 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4642 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4643 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4644 pthread_setaffinity_np
4645 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4646 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4647 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4648 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4649 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4650 prelink
4651 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4652 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4653 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4654 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4655 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4656 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4657 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4658 bits/mathcalls.h
4659 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4660 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4661 for C99-based standards
4662 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4663 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4664 math-only
4665 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4666 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4667 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4668 disabled
4669 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4670 "inexact" exceptions
4671 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4672 arguments
4673 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4674 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4675 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4676 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4677 rules
4678 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4679 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4680 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4681 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4682 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4683 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4684 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4685 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4686 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4687 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4688 from 32bit
4689 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4690 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4691 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4692 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4693 subnormals
4694 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4695 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4696 error on 32-bit architectures
4697 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4698 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4699 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4700 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4701 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4702 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4703 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4704 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4705 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4706 -Os
4707 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4708 CPU's.
4709 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4710 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4711 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4712 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4713 architectures
4714 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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4716Version 2.22
4717
4718* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4719
3df5cd98 4720 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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4721 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4722 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4723 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4724 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4725 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4726 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4727 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4728 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4729 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4730 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4731 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4732 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4733 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4734 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4735 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4736 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4737 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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4738 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4739 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 4740
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4741* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4742 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4743
2959eda9
AS
4744* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4745 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4746 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4747 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4748 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4749 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 4750
42261ad7
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4751* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4752 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4753 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4754 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4755 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4756
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4757* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4758 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4759 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4760
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4761* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4762 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4763 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4764 17998.
4765
b13b96ca
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4766* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4767 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4768 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
4769
4770* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
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4771 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4772 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
4773 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4774 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
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4775 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4776 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 4777 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
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4778
4779* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4780 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4781 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4782 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
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4783
4784* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4785 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4786 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
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RM
4787
4788* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4789 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
4790
4791* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4792 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4793 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4794
a03ba363 4795 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
4796 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4797 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 4798\f
58b930ae
SP
4799Version 2.21
4800
4801* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4802
042e1521 4803 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
4804 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4805 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4806 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4807 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4808 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4809 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4810 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4811 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4812 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4813 17892.
4814
46d54873
FW
4815* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4816 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4817 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4818 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4819 intended.
042e1521
CD
4820
4821* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4822 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4823 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4824 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4825 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4826 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 4827
522e6ee3
CLT
4828* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4829
d3b00f46
AZ
4830* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4831 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 4832 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 4833
8d2c0a59
AZ
4834* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4835 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4836 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4837 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4838 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4839 effects being visible outside transactions.
4840
dc400d7b
RE
4841* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4842 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 4843
0f9dfe04
L
4844* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4845
a39208bd
CD
4846* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4847 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 4848 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
4849 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4850 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 4851
a5357b7c
JL
4852* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4853 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4854
e54db0ea
AM
4855* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4856 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4857 format.
11e3417a 4858
4863355a
JM
4859* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4860 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4861 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4862
a4ecc9eb
JM
4863* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4864 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4865
0d560bbf 4866* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
4867
4868* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4869 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4870 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4871 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
4872
4873* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4874 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
4875
4876* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4877 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4878 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4879 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4880 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4881 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4882 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4883 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4884 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4885 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4886 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4887 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4888 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4889
4890 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4891 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4892 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4893 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4894 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 4895\f
d5b396c1
AM
4896Version 2.20
4897
4898* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4899
6a9350c8
JM
4900 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4901 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4902 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4903 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4904 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4905 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4906 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4907 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4908 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4909 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4910 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4911 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4912 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4913 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4914 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 4915
95ee7fb1
SL
4916* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4917 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4918 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4919 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4920 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 4921 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
4922 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4923 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4924 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4925 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4926
0961f7e1
JL
4927* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4928 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4929 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4930 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4931 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 4932
f940b965
RE
4933* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4934
d0f5b3f8
JM
4935* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4936 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4937
d6fe5e58
JM
4938* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4939 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4940 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4941 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4942 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4943 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4944
464263cc
JM
4945* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4946 from ports.
c941736c
JM
4947
4948* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4949 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4950 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4951 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4952 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4953 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4954 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
4955
4956* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
4957
4958* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4959 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4960 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4961 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4962 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4963 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4964 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
4965
4966* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4967 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4968 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4969 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4970 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
4971
4972* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4973 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4974 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
4975
4976* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4977 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4978 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4979 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
4980
4981* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4982 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4983 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4984 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4985 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4986 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4987 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4988 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
4989
4990* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4991 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4992 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4993 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4994 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4995 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4996 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4997 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4998 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
4999
5000* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5001 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5002 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5003 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5004 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 5005 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
5006
5007* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5008 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5009 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5010 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
5011\f
5012Version 2.19
5013
5014* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5015
fd2f9486
JM
5016 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5017 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5018 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5019 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5020 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5021 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5022 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5023 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5024 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5025 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
5026 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5027 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5028 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5029 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5030 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
5031 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5032 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5033 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 5034
11520a57
CD
5035* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5036 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5037
2fe16229
CD
5038* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5039 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5040 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
5041 extension which uses __block.
5042
303e567a
SP
5043* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5044 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5045 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5046 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5047 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5048
141f3a77
SP
5049* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5050 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5051 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5052 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5053 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
5054
5055* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5056 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5057 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5058 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5059 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
5060
5061* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5062 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5063 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5064
ba0d798c
WN
5065* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5066 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5067 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5068 #15856, #15857).
5069
7cbcdb36
SP
5070* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5071 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5072
82bab04b 5073* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 5074 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 5075
c5f840fd
MB
5076* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5077
3e181dda
CD
5078* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5079 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 5080
3e181dda 5081* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 5082
8a05c252
CL
5083* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5084
6055173a
JM
5085* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5086 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5087 for which the C library was built.
5088
b125d3e5
JM
5089* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5090 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5091 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5092 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5093 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5094 in the following circumstances:
5095
5096 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5097
5098 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5099 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5100
d4f66d37
JM
5101* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5102 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5103
3e181dda
CD
5104* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5105 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 5106
ffb89e53
AO
5107* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5108
5d29ccce
SP
5109* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5110 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5111
8b7d57cd 5112* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
5113
5114* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 5115
fd712ef3 5116* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 5117
c688b419
JM
5118* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5119 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5120 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5121 disable some of those declarations.
5122
7011c262 5123* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
5124 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5125 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
5126
5127* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5128 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
5129
5130* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5131 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5132 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5133 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5134 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5135 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5136 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5137 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5138 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5139 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5140 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5141 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5142 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
5143\f
5144Version 2.18
5145
5146* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5147
17db6e8d 5148 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
5149 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5150 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
5151 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5152 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5153 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5154 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5155 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5156 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5157 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5158 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5159 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5160 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5161 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
5162
5163* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5164 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5165 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5166 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5167 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5168 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 5169
5b535ac4
AS
5170* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5171 #15078).
5172
1cef1b19
AS
5173* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5174 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 5175
55e4107b
SP
5176* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5177 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5178 destructor calls to glibc.
5179
e5c74c63
SP
5180* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5181 output.
5182
5183* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5184 non-x86 architectures.
5185
e7521973
JM
5186* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5187
5188* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5189
5190* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5191 Richard Henderson.
5192
5193* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5194
5195* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5196 Richard Henderson.
5197
5198* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5199 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5200
8cfdb7e0
SP
5201* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5202
57267616
TS
5203* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5204 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 5205
c204ab28
SP
5206* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5207 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 5208
0748546f
PE
5209* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5210 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5211 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5212
61dd6208
SP
5213* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5214 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5215 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
5216
5217* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5218 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5219 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5220 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5221 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
5222
5223* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5224 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5225
5226* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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5227\f
5228Version 2.17
5229
5230* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5231
80ceeaee 5232 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
5233 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5234 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5235 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5236 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5237 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5238 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5239 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5240 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5241 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5242 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5243 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5244 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5245 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5246 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 5247
95b4f1b6
SE
5248* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5249
14bc93a9
JL
5250* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5251 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 5252
b54eb3cb
JM
5253* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5254 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5255
7e2bd01f
MS
5256* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5257
08f43f9b
AK
5258* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5259 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5260 zEnterprise z196.
5261 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5262
84b3fd84
FW
5263* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5264 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5265 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5266
815e6fa3
GB
5267* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5268 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5269
400726de
MK
5270* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5271 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5272
7aab07e4 5273* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 5274 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 5275
15d0da8c
WS
5276* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5277 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5278
3cc3ef96
RM
5279* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5280 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
5281 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5282 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 5283
b54eb3cb
JM
5284* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5285 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5286
85429b1a 5287* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 5288 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
5289 default.
5290
b54eb3cb
JM
5291* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5292 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5293 information in --help and --version output.
5294
050af9c4
SP
5295* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5296 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5297 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5298
89a3ad0b
AO
5299* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5300 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5301 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5302 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5303 when the mode is enabled.
5304
6e6249d0
RM
5305* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5306 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5307 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5308 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5309 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5310 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5311 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 5312
d9286582
NK
5313* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5314 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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5315\f
5316Version 2.16
5317
5318* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5319
a8133e19
JM
5320 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5321 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5322 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5323 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5324 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5325 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5326 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5327 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5328 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5329 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5330 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5331 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5332 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5333 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5334 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5335 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5336 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5337 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5338 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5339 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5340 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5341 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5342 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 5343
a086b4d6
L
5344* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5345 configuring glibc with:
5346 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 5347 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
5348 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5349
380d7e87
UD
5350* ISO C11 support:
5351
5352 + define static_assert
5353
5354 + do not declare gets
5355
5356 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5357
5358 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5359 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5360 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5361 implementation.
8d44e150 5362
74033a25 5363 + timespec_get added
544563c9
UD
5364
5365 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 5366
ac097f5c
UD
5367 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5368
16dd419d
UD
5369 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5370
9dc4e1fb 5371* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
UD
5372
5373* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
5374
5375* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5376 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
5377
5378* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5379 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
5380
5381* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5382 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5383 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5384 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5385 existing applications.
ffb7875d 5386
21708942 5387* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
5388 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5389 before 2.6.
83678f76 5390
edb00e4d
RH
5391* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5392 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5393 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5394
83678f76 5395* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
5396
5397* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5398 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5399 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5400 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5401 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
5402
5403* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5404
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
5405* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5406 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
5407
5408* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5409
5410* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5411 without a previously built glibc.
5412
5413* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5414 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5415
5416* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5417 now supported for ARM processors.
5418
5419* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5420 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5421 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5422
5423* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
5424
5425* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5426 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5427 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5428 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
5429
5430* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5431 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5432 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5433 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
5434
5435* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5436 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5437 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5438 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5439 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5440
5441* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5442 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5443 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5444 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 5445\f
e80fab37 5446Version 2.15
11988f8f 5447
c0244a9d
UD
5448* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5449
aebae053
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5450 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5451 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5452 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5453 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5454 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5455 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5456 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 5457
11988f8f
UD
5458* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5459 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
5460
5461* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5462 and support for initgroups lookups.
5463 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
5464
5465* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5466 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
5467
5468* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5469 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 5470
fc2ee42a
LD
5471* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5472 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 5473 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 5474
d42964a0 5475* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
5476 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5477
1d3e4b61
UD
5478* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5479 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
5480 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5481
c55fbd1e
UD
5482* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5483 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
UD
5484
5485* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5486 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
UD
5487
5488* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5489 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
UD
5490
5491* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5492 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
UD
5493
5494* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5495 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5496
5497* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5498 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
UD
5499
5500* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
UD
5501
5502* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5503 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 5504
f0b264f1
AZ
5505* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5506 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 5507
6b64057b 5508* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 5509\f
dded88cd 5510Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 5511
50934221
UD
5512* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5513
553149f6 5514 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 5515 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 5516 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 5517 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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5518 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5519 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5520 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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5521 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5522 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 5523 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 5524
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5525* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5526 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5527 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 5528 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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5529
5530 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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5531 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5532 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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5533 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5534
c6489db3 5535* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 5536 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 5537
72d1dddb 5538* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 5539 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
UD
5540
5541* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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5542
5543* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5544 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
UD
5545
5546* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5547 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5548 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5549 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
9f94d2ea 5550\f
4828935d
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5551Version 2.13
5552
ac2b484c
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5553* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5554
c30b7ee2
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5555 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5556 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5557 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5558 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5559 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 5560
10b3bedc 5561* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 5562
ac2b484c 5563* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 5564
e9f82e0d
UD
5565* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5566 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 5567 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4828935d 5568\f
ee1a7fab
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5569Version 2.12
5570
d36b9613
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5571* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5572
2e0fb521
DL
5573 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5574 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5575 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5576 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
fc97f36d
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5577 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5578 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5579 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 5580 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
86a4c67f
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5581
5582* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 5583
ee1a7fab
UD
5584* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5585
5e4295fb
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5586* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5587
5588* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5589 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5590 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5591
71170aa0
UD
5592* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5593 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5594 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5595 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5596 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5597
d36b9613 5598* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
b50f8e42
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5599\f
5600Version 2.11
5601
d36b9613
UD
5602* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5603
5604 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5605 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5606 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5607 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5608 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5609 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5610
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5611* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5612 mkostemps64
3d5243d4
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5613 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5614
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5616 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5617
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5618* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5619 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5620
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5621* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5622
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9d36a6c4 5624 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 5625 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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5627
9d36a6c4 5628 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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5629 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5630
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5631* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5632 strstr, strcasestr.
5633 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5634
5635* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5636 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5637
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5638* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5639 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5640
5641* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5642 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5643
5644* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5645 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5646 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5647 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5648 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5649 necessity is every process again.
5650 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5651
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5652* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5653 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5654
5655* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5656 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5657
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5658* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5659 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5660 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5661
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5665
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5667
5668 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5669 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5670 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5671 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5672 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5673
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5675 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5676
425ce2ed 5677* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 5678 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 5679
1fdd89a7 5680* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 5681 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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5683* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5684 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 5686* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 5687 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5689* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5690 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5691
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5692* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5693 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5694
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5695* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5696 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5697
5698* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5699 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5700 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5701
735be400 5702* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
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84aa52d7 5704* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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5706
5707* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5708 and extend existing format specifiers.
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5709 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5710
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5711* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5712 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5713
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5714* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5715 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5716 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5717 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5718 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5719 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5722
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5724
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5726 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5727 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5728 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5729 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
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5732 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5733
5734* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5735 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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5737* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5738 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5740* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5741 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5742 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5743
5744* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5745 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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5749* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 5750 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5752* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5753 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5754 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5755 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5756
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5757* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5758 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5760* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5761 Sinhala)
48b22986 5762 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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5764* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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5767
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5769
5770 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5771 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5772 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5773 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5774 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5775 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5776 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5777
e038616f 5778* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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5782* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5783 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5784
5785* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5786
5787* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5788 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5789
5790* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5791 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5792
5793* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5794 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5795 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5796
5797* Faster memset for x86-64.
5798 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5799
5800* Faster memcpy on x86.
5801 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5802
5803* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5804 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5805
5806* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 5807 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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5809Version 2.7
5810
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5811* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5812
5813 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5814 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5815 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5816 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5817 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5818
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5819* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5820 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5821
5822* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5823
5824* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5825 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5826 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5827
5828* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5829 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5830
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5832 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5833
5834* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5835
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5836* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5837 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5838
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5839* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5840 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5841
5842* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5843 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5844
5845* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5846
5847* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5848 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5850* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5851 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5852 yo_NG.
5853
5854+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5855 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5860
5861 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5862 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5863 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5864 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5865 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5866 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5867 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5868 4702, 4858
5869
bce20b9a 5870* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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5872* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5873
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5877
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5878* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5879
5880 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5881 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5882 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5883 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5884 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5885 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5886 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5887 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5888 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5889
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5891 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5892 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5894* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5895 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5896
871b9158 5897* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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5898
5899* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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5901* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5902 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5903 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 5904 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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5905 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5906
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5908 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5909 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5910 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5911
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5912* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5913 Ulrich Drepper.
5914
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5915* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5916
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5917* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5918 Ulrich Drepper.
5919
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5920* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5921
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5922* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5923 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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5926
5927* More overflow detection functions.
5928
5929* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5930 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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5932 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5933 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5934 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5935 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5936 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5937 by Masahide Washizawa.
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5940 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5942* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5943 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5944 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5945 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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5947* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5948 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5949
5950* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5951
5952* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5953 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5954 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5955
5956* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5957 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5958
5959* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5960 for compatibility with some other systems.
5961
5962* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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5964Version 2.3.6
5965
5966* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5967
5968 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5969 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5970 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5971 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5972 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5973 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5974
5a82c748 5975 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5977* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5978
5979* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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5981Version 2.3.5
5982
5983* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5984
5985 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5986 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5987 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5988 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5989
5a82c748 5990 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5993
5994* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5995 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5996
5997* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5998 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5999 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6000
6001* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6002 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6003
0325dd20 6004* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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6005 efficiently.
6006 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6007
6008* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6009 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6010 handling data.
6011
6012* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6013 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 6014 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6016* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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6017 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6018
6019* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6020 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6021 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6022 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6023
6024* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6025 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6026 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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6027 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6028
6029* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6030 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6031 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6032 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6033 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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6036
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6038 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6039
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6040* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6041 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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69be6aaf 6043* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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6045
6046* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6047 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6049* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6050 by Roland McGrath.
6051
c5af724c 6052* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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6053 and Ulrich Drepper.
6054
6055* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6056 RFC 3484.
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6058Version 2.3.2
6059
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6060* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6061 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6062 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6063 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6064 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6065 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6066 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6067 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6068 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6069
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6070* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6071 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6072 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6073
6074* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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6075
6076* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6077 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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6079* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6080 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6081
52a16e58 6082* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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6084* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6085 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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6086
6087* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
6088 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6089 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6090 of weak definition in ld.so.
6091
6092* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6093 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6094
6095* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6096 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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37fb1084 6099
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6100* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6101 charsets.
6102
6103* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6104 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 6105
bb0ec5bd 6106* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 6107 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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6108
6109* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6110 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 6111
bb0ec5bd 6112* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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6113 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6114 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6115
6116* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6117 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 6118
bb0ec5bd 6119* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 6120 implementation of regex.
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6121
6122* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6123 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 6124
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6125* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6126 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 6127
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6128* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6129 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6130 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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6131
6132* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 6133 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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6134
6135* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6136 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6137 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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6138
6139* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6140 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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6141
6142* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6143 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6144 and Ulrich Drepper.
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6145
6146* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6147\f
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6148Version 2.2.6
6149
6150* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6151 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6152
6153* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6154 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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6156Version 2.2.5
6157
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6158* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6159 128-bit long double format.
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6161* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6162 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 6163
ad2e4f18 6164* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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6166* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6167
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6168* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6169 as well.
6170
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6171* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6172 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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6173
6174* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
7d0c5823 6175\f
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6176Version 2.2.4
6177
2995f70e 6178* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 6179 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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6180
6181* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6182 support Unicode 3.1.
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6183
6184* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6185 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 6186
69d5f925 6187* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 6188
69d5f925 6189* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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6190 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6191 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6192
6193* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6194 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6195
6196* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6197 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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6198
6199* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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6201Version 2.2.3
6202
1746f2b0 6203* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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6204 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6205 in float, double, and long double format.
6206
f128331c 6207* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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6208 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6209 128-bit long double format.
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6211* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6212 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6213 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6214 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6215
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6216* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6217 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6218 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6219
6220* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6221 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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6222
6223* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6224 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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6225
6226* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6227 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6228 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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6229
6230* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6231 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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6232
6233* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6234 of functions for Linux/x86.
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6235
6236* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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6238Version 2.2.2
6239
464d97ec 6240* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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6241 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6242 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6243 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6244 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6245 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6246 other headers.
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6247
6248* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6249 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6250
6251* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6252 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6253 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6254 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6255
6256* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6257 locales. While
6258
6259 locale -a
6260
6261 only lists the names of the supported locales
6262
6263 locale -a --verbose
6264
6265 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6266 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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6268Version 2.2.1
6269
6270* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6271 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6272 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6273 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6274 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6275
6276 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6277
6278 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6279
6280 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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6281
6282* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6283 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6284 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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6285
6286* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6287 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6288
6289* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6290 changed from the default "C" locale.
6291
6292* The usual bug fixes.
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6294Version 2.2
6295
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6296* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6297 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6298 is in progress.
6299
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6300* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6301
793bd4d9 6302* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 6303
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6304 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6305 obviously requires a database library being available.
6306
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6307* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6308
abbffdf9 6309* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 6310
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6311* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6312 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6313
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6314* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6315
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6316* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6317 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6318 and Mark Kettenis.
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6319
6320 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6321 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6322 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 6323
a00c3ca9 6324 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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6325 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6326
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6327* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6328 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6329 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6330
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6331* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6332 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6333 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6334 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6335
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6336 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6337 structures for the wide character tables.
6338
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6339* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6340
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6341* The utmp daemon has been removed.
6342
6343* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6344
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6345* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6346 and Yutaka Niibe.
6347
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6348* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6349
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6350* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6351
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6352* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6353
6354* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6355
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6356* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6357
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6358* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6359 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6360 implemented for Linux.
6361
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6362* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6363 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6364 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6365 versions.
6366
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6367* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6368 Masahide Washizawa.
6369
8f3f1e09 6370* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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6371\f
6372Version 2.1.3
6373
6374* bug fixes
6375
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6376\f
6377Version 2.1.2
6378
6379* bug fixes
6380
28f540f4 6381\f
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6382Version 2.1.1
6383
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6384* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6385
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6386* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6387
407d26b7 6388* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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6389
6390* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6391
407d26b7 6392* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 6393
407d26b7 6394* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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6395
6396* Update timezone data files.
27995311 6397
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6398* lots of charmaps corrections
6399
6400* some new locale definitions and charmaps
6401
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6403Version 2.1
6404
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6405* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6406 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6407 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6408 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6409 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6410 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6411
c84142e8 6412* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 6413 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 6414
1fb05e3d 6415* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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6416 symbol level.
6417
6418* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
6419 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 6420
cbdee279 6421* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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6422
6423* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 6424 numbers.
377a515b 6425
cbdee279 6426* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 6427
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6428* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6429 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 6430
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6431* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6432 library.
6433
e61abf83 6434* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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6435 functions from ISO C 9X.
6436
6437* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6438 real valued functions.
e61abf83 6439
a5a0310d 6440* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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6442* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6443
6444* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 6445
440d13e2 6446* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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6447
6448* Optimized string functions have been added.
6449
6450* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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6451
6452* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
ea278354 6453
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6454* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6455 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6456
6457 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6458 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6459
0dee6738 6460 user system wall
48244d09 6461
0dee6738 6462 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 6463
0dee6738 6464 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 6465
0dee6738 6466 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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6468 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6469
6470 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6471
6472 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
48244d09 6473
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6474 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6475 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 6476 horribly slow.
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6478 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6479 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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6480
6481* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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6482
6483* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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6484
6485* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6486 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6487
6488* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
48244d09 6489
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6490* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6491 Bambrough.
6492
6493* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6494 latest draft standards.
6495
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6496* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6497
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6498* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6499~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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48244d09 6501alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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6502argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6503argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6504argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6505argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6506argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6507argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6508argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6509argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6510argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6511argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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6512authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6513authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6514authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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6515backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6516backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6517backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6518cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
6519cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6520cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6521cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6522cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6523cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6524capget NEW: kernel
6525capset NEW: kernel
6526carg NEW: ISO C 9x
6527cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
6528cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
6529casin NEW: ISO C 9x
6530casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6531casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6532casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6533casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6534casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6535catan NEW: ISO C 9x
6536catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6537catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6538catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6539catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6540catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 6541cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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6542ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
6543ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6544ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6545ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6546ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6547ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6548cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
6549cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
6550cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
6551cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
6552cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6553cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6554clearerr_locked REMOVED
6555clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6556clog NEW: ISO C 9x
6557clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6558clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6559clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6560clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
6561clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
6562conj NEW: ISO C 9x
6563conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
6564conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
6565cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
6566cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
6567cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
6568cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
6569cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6570cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6571creal NEW: ISO C 9x
6572crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6573creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6574creat64 NEW: LFS
6575csin NEW: ISO C 9x
6576csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6577csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6578csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6579csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6580csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6581csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
6582csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6583csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6584ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
6585ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6586ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6587ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6588ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6589ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6591ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6592endutxent NEW: Unix98
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6594exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6595exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6596exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6597exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6598exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6599fattach NEW: STREAMS
6600fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6601fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
6602fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
6603fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
6604feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6605fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6606fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6607fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6608feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6609feof_locked REMOVED
6610feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6611ferror_locked REMOVED
6612fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6613fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6614fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6615fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6616feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6617fflush_locked REMOVED
6618ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
6619ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
6620fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
6621fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6622fileno_locked REMOVED
6623fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6624fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6625fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6626fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6627fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6628fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6629fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6630fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6631fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 6632fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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6634fputc_locked REMOVED
6635fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6636fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6637freopen64 NEW: LFS
6638fseeko NEW: Unix98
6639fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
6640fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
6641fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6642fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
6643ftello NEW: Unix98
6644ftello64 NEW: LFS
6645ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6646ftw64 NEW: LFS
6647fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6648gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6649gamma_r REMOVED
6650gammaf_r REMOVED
6651gammal_r REMOVED
6652getchar_locked REMOVED
6653getdate NEW: Unix98
6654getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6655getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6656getmsg NEW: STREAMS
6657getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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6660getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6661getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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6663getutxid NEW: Unix98
6664getutxline NEW: Unix98
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6666globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6667gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6668gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6669grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 6670host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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6672iconv_close NEW: iconv
6673iconv_open NEW: iconv
6674if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6675if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6676if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6677if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6678in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6679in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6680inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6681isastream NEW: STREAMS
6682iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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6684key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6685key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6686key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6687key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6688key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6689key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6690key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6691key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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6693llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6694llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6695llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6696llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6697llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6698log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6699log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6700log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6701lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6702lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6703lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6704lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6705lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6706lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6707lseek64 NEW: LFS
6708makecontext NEW: Unix98
6709mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6710mmap64 NEW: LFS
6711moncontrol REMOVED
6712modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6713nan NEW: ISO C 9x
6714nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6715nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6716nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6717nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6718nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6720netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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6722nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6723nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6725nftw64 NEW: LFS
6726open64 NEW: LFS
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6729pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6730pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6731pread NEW: Unix98
6732pread64 NEW: LFS
6733printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6734printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6735profil_counter REMOVED
6736pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6737pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6738ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6739ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6740putc_locked REMOVED
6741putchar_locked REMOVED
6742putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6743putmsg NEW: STREAMS
6744putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 6745pututxline NEW: Unix98
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6747pwrite64 NEW: LFS
6748readdir64 NEW: LFS
6749readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6750remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6751remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6752remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6753round NEW: ISO C 9x
6754roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6755roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6756rtime NEW: GNU ext.
6757scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6758scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6759scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6760scandir64 NEW: LFS
6761sendfile NEW: kernel
6762setcontext NEW: Unix98
6763setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 6764setutxent NEW: Unix98
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6766sigignore NEW: Unix98
6767sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6768sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6769sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6770sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6771sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6772sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6773sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6774sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6775statfs64 NEW: LFS
6776statvfs NEW: Unix98
6777statvfs64 NEW: LFS
6778strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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6780strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6781strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
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6784svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6785swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6786tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6787tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6788tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6789tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6790tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6791tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
6792trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
6793truncate64 NEW: LFS
6794truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6795truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6796umount2 NEW: kernel
6797unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 6798updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 6799user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6800utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 6801versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 6802versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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6803waitid NEW: Unix98
6804wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6805wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6806wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6807wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6808wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6809wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6810wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6811wcswcs NEW: Unix98
6812wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6813wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6814write_profiling REMOVED
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6816xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6817xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6818xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6819xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6820xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6821xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6822xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6823xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6824xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6825xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6826xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6827xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 6828xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
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48244d09 6830~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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6832Version 2.0.6
6833
6834* more bug fixes
6835
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6837Version 2.0.5
6838
6839* more bug fixes
6840
6841* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6842
6843* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6844
6845* rewrite of cbrt function
6846
6847* update of timezone data
6848\f
6849Version 2.0.4
6850
6851* more bug fixes
6852\f
6853Version 2.0.3
6854
6855* more bug fixes
c84142e8 6856\f
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6858
6859* more bug fixes
6860
6861* add atoll function
6862
6863* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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6865* fix math functions
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6867Version 2.0.1
6868
6869* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6870
6871* dynamic loader preserves all registers
6872
6873* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6874 the ELF dynamic loader.
6875
6876* support for parallel builds is improved
6877\f
40a4b79f 6878Version 2.0
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6880* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6881 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6882 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
6883
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6884* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6885 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6886 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6887 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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6888 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6889 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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6890 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6891 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6892 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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6893 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6894 files in the ELF format.
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6895
6896* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6897 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6898
6899* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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6900 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6901 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6902 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6903 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6904 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6905 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6906 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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6907 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6908 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6909 about dynamically linked binaries.
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6911* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6912 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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6913 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6914 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6915 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 6916
f7eac6eb 6917* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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6918 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6919 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6920 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6921 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6922
6923* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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6925* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6926 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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6927 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6928 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6929 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6930 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6931 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6932 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6933 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 6934
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6935* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6936 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6937 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6938
6939* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6940 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6941 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6942
6943* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6944 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6945 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6946 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6947
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6948* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6949 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6950 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6951
6952* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6953 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6954 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6955
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6956* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6957 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6958
f7eac6eb 6959* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 6960 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 6961 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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6962 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6963
6964* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6965 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6966 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 6967
71733723 6968* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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6969 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6970 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6971 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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6972 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6973 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 6974 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 6975 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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6976
6977* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6978 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6979 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6980 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6981 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6982 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6983 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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6984
6985* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6986 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6987 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6988 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6989 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6990 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6991
6992* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6993 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6994
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6995* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6996 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6997 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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6999* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7000
7001* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7002 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7003 their use is discouraged.
7004
7005* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7006 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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7008* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7009 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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7010
7011* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7012 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7013
7014* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7015 see <dirent.h>.
7016
7017* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7018 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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7019 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7020 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7021 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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7022
7023* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7024 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7025 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7026 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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7027
7028* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7029 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7030
7031* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7032 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7033 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7034 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7035 number generator.
7036
7037* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7038 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7039
7040* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7041 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7042
71733723 7043* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 7044 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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7045 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7046 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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7048* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7049
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7051 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7052 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7053
7054* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7055 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 7057* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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7058 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7059 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7060 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7061
7062* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7063 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7064 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7065 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7066 programs already written to use it.)
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7067
7068* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7069 constants.
7070
7071* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7072 with 4.4 BSD.
7073
7074* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7075 a given effective group ID.
7076
7077* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7078 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7079 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7080 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7081
7082* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 7083 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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7084 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7085 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7086 doing the same thing.
7087
7088* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7089 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7090
7091* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 7092 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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7093
7094* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7095
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7096* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7097 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7098 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 7099 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 7100 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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7101
7102* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7103 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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7104
7105* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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7106 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7107 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7108 function.
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7109
7110* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7111
7112* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7113 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7114 strings.
7115
7116* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7117 and writing the utmp file.
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7118
7119* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7120 Thorsten Kukuk.
7121
7122* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7123 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7124 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7125
7126* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7127 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7128
7129* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7130 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7131 specification.
7132
7133* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7134 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7135 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7136 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7137
7138* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7139 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7140 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7141
7142* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7143 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7144 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7145 expression matcher.
7146
7147* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7148 functionality.
7149
7150* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7151 by Ulrich Drepper.
7152
7153* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7154
7155* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7156 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7157 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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7158\f
7159Version 1.09
7160
7161* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7162
7163* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7164 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7165
7166* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7167 want to put themselves in the background.
7168
7169* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7170 run without an operating system.
7171
7172* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7173 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7174
7175* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7176 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7177
7178* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7179
7180* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7181 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7182 have YP (aka NIS).
7183
7184* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7185 conventions.
7186
7187* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7188 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7189\f
7190Version 1.08
7191
7192* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7193 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7194 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7195
7196* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7197 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7198
7199* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7200 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7201
7202* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7203
7204* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7205
7206* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7207 compatibility.
7208
7209* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7210 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7211 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7212
7213* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7214
7215* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7216 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7217 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7218
7219* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7220 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7221 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7222 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7223 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7224 on a block).
7225
7226* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7227 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7228 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7229 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7230 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7231 cross-compiler.
7232
7233* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7234 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7235\f
7236Version 1.07
7237
7238* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7239 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7240
7241* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7242 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7243 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7244
7245* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7246 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7247 address of the last character written.
7248
7249* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7250 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7251
7252* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7253 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7254
7255* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7256 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7257 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7258 you dereference this pointer.
7259
7260* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7261 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7262
7263* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7264 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7265 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7266 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7267
7268* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7269 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7270 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7271 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7272\f
7273Version 1.06
7274
7275* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7276 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7277 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7278 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 7279 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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7281* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7282
7283* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7284
7285* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7286 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7287
7288* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7289 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7290
7291* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7292 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7293
7294* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7295 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7296 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7297 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7298 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7299
7300* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7301 to the error code in `errno'.
7302
7303* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7304 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7305 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7306 malloc'd string.
7307
7308* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7309 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7310 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7311
7312* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7313 uniquely-named temporary file.
7314\f
7315Version 1.05
7316
7317* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7318 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7319 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7320
7321* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7322 characters.
7323
7324* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7325 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7326
7327* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7328\f
7329Version 1.04
7330
7331* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7332 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7333 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7334 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7335
7336* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7337 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7338 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7339
7340* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7341 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7342
7343* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7344 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7345 made itself into a shared library.
7346
7347* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7348 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7349
7350* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7351 with limited length.
7352
7353* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7354
7355* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7356
7357* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7358
7359* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7360 function for traversing a directory tree.
7361
7362* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7363 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7364 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7365 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7366
7367* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7368 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7369
7370* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7371
7372* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7373 things to your strings.
7374
7375* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7376
7377* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7378 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7379 supporting those systems.
7380
7381* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7382 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7383 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7384 configuration files.
7385
7386* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7387 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7388
7389* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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7390 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7391 in <strings.h>.)
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7393* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7394 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7395 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7396 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7397 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7398 required storage is not available.
7399
7400* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7401 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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7403* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7404 latest files released from Berkeley.
7405\f
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7408
7409 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
7410 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
7411 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
7412 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
7413
7414 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
7415 of this document, or of portions of it,
7416 under the above conditions, provided also that they
7417 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
7418\f
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