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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
d614a753 2Copyright (C) 1992-2020 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/>
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8Version 2.33
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10Major new features:
11
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14* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
15 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
16
17 - rv32imac ilp32
18 - rv32imafdc ilp32
19 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
20
21 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
22 2.28.
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24Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
25
26 [Add deprecations, removals and changes affecting compatibility here]
27
28Changes to build and runtime requirements:
29
30 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
31
32Security related changes:
33
34 [Add security related changes here]
35
36The following bugs are resolved with this release:
37
38 [The release manager will add the list generated by
39 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
40
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42Version 2.32
43
44Major new features:
45
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46* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
47 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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48 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
49
50* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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52* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
53 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
54 Three ABIs are supported:
55
56 - arc-linux-gnu
57 - arc-linux-gnuhf
58 - arceb-linux-gnu
59
60 The arc* ABI is little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
61 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
62
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63* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
64 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
65
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66* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
67 using the -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
68 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
69 this option.
70
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71* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
72 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
73 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
74
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75* On Linux, functions the pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
76 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
77 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
78
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79* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
80 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
81 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
82 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
83 libpthread.
84
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85* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
86 sigabbrev_np returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for SIGHUP)
87 while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number (e.g
88 "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
89 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
90 NULL for an invalid signal number.
91
92 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
93 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
94
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95* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
96 strerroname_np returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL) while
97 strerrordesc_np returns string describing error number
98 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
99 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
100 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
101
102 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
103 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
104
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105* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
106 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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107 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
108 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
109 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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110 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
111 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
112 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
113 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
114 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
115 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
116 BTI compatible.
117
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118Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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120* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
121 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
122 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
123 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
124 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
125 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
126 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
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128* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
129 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
130 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
131 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
132 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
133 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
134 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
135 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depended on libnsl
136 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
137
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138* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
139 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
140 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
141 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
142 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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144* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
145 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
146 was not declared in any header file.
147
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148* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
149 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
150 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
151 sigaction functions instead.
152
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153* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
154 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
155
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156* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
157 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
158 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
159 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
160 strsignal instead.
161
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162* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
163 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
164 have been removed from from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
165 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
166 strerror or strerror_r instead.
167
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168* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
169 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
170 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
171 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
172
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173* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
174 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
175 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
176 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
177 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
178 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
179 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
180
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181* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
182 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
183 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
184 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
185 flavor of secure RPC.)
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187* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
188 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
189 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
190 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
191 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
192 object, to enable the hooks.
193
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194* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
195 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
196 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
197 LDAP.
198
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199Changes to build and runtime requirements:
200
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201* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
202 long double redirects.
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204Security related changes:
205
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206 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
207 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
208 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
209
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210 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
211 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
212 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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214 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
215 expanding ~user has been fixed.
216
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217 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
218 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
219 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
220 TALOS-2020-1019).
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222The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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224 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
225 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
226 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
227 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
228 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
229 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
230 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
231 filtee has constructor
232 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
233 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
234 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
235 character entities for infinity & pi
236 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
237 segfaults in applications
238 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
239 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
240 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
241 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
242 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
243 function with -mlong-double-64
244 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
245 binding
246 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
247 ld.so.cache
248 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
249 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
250 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
251 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
252 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
253 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
254 linker
255 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
256 dynamically loaded dsos
257 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
258 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
259 access
260 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
261 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
262 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
263 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
264 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
265 stale configuration forever
266 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
267 (CVE-2020-10029)
268 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
269 defaults to PIE
270 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
271 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
272 (CVE-2020-6096)
273 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
274 on 32 bit and old kernel
275 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
276 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
277 Occitan
278 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
279 amount of sigset_t bytes
280 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
281 strings
282 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
283 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
284 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
285 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
286 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
287 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
288 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
289 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
290 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
291 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
292 size_t
293 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
294 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
295 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
296 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
297 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
298 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
299 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
300 cpu=power9
301 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
302 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
303 segfault
304 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
305 exiting detached thread
306 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
307 for x32
308 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
309 ERANGE
310 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
311 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
312 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
313 dependencies in audit mode
314 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
315 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
316 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
317 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
318 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
319 input
320 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
321 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
322 preserve r2
323 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
324 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
325 variables
326 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
327 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
328 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
329 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
330 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
331 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
332 corruption in memset
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335Version 2.31
336
337Major new features:
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339* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
340 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
341 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
342 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
343 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
344 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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346* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
347 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
348 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
349 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
350
69ca4b54 351* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 352 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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353 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
354
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355* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
356
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357* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
358 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
359 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
360 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
361 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
362 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
363 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
364 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
365
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366Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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368* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
369 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
370 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
371 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
372 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
373 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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376 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
377 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
378
379* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
380 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
381 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
382 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
383
384* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
385 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
386 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
387 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
388 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
389 made this no longer practical.
390
391 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
392 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
393 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
394 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
395 release.)
396
397 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
398 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
399 with the current time, use the localtime function.
400
401 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
402 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
403 using clock_gettime instead.
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406 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
407 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
408 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
409 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
410
411 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
412 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
413 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
414 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
415
416 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
417 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
418 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
419 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
420 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
421 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
422
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423 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
424 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
425 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
426 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
427 offset API.
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430 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
431 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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433 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
434 configurations.
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436* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
437 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
438 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
439 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
440 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
441
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442* For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
443 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
444 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
445 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
446 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
447 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
448 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
449 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
450
451 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
452 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
453
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454* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
455 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
456 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
457 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
458 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
459 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
460
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461Changes to build and runtime requirements:
462
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464 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
465 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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467* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
468 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
469 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
470
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471Security related changes:
472
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473 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
474 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
475
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476 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
477 environment variable during program execution after a security
478 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
479 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
480 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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481
482The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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484 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
485 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
486 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
487 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
488 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
489 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
490 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
491 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
492 linking failure
493 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
494 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
495 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
496 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
497 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
498 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
499 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
500 constructors/destructors is not fatal
501 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
502 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
503 7408-2005
504 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
505 with localedef
506 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
507 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
508 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
509 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
510 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
511 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
512 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
513 utmp entries
514 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
515 ABSOLUTE ABI
516 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
517 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
518 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
519 (stringop-overflow error)
520 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
521 functions other can lead to crashes
522 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
523 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
524 unconditionally
525 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
526 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
527 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
528 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
529 still can fail with an error
530 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
531 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
532 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
533 initialized correctly
534 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
535 -frewrite-includes
536 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
537 value to an unsigned
538 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
539 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
540 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
541 protection
542 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
543 ifunc variant.
544 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
545 al. for Clang++
546 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
547 (Slovenian)
548 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
549 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
550 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
551 with -std=c11
552 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
553 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
554 part
555 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
556 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
557 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
558 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
559 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
560 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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565Major new features:
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567* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
568 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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569 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
570
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571* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
572 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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574* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
575 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
576 to the callback function.
577
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580* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
581 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
582 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
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585
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586* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
587 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
588 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
589 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
590 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
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592* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
593 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
594 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
595 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
596 link time reference, is gone.
597
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599 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
600 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
601 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
602 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
603 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
604 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
605 the clock choice at initialization time).
606
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608 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
609 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
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612
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613* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
614 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
615 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
616 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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618 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
619 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
620 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
621 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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624 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
625 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
626 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
627 since glibc 2.17.
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629* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
630 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
631
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632* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
633 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
634
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635* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
636 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
637
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638* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
639 BIND_NOW flag.
640
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641* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
642 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
643 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
644
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645* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
646 header have been removed.
647
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648* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
649 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
650 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
651 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
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656
657 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
658 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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660Security related changes:
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662 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
663 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
664 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
665 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
666 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
667 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
668 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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670 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
671 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
672 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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676 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
677 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
678 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
679 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
680 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
681 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
682 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
683 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
684 invalid input drops valid char
685 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
686 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
687 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
688 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
689 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
690 malloc.h.
691 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
692 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
693 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
694 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
695 functions
696 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
697 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
698 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
699 for long double = double
700 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
701 long double = double
702 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
703 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
704 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
705 long timeouts
706 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar ouput to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
707 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
708 checking for NULL.
709 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
710 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
711 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
712 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
713 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
714 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
715 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
716 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
717 not the default "nor"
718 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
719 false positives, change to modern flexible array
720 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
721 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
722 compiler barriers.
723 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
724 unnecessary librt dependencies
725 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
726 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
727 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
728 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
729 unsorted chunk
730 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
731 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
732 to R_SPARC_H44
733 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
734 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
735 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
736 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
737 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
738 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
739 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
740 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
741 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
742 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
743 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
744 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
745 was not used
746 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
747 tests
748 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
749 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
750 time_t changes
751 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
752 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
753 kernels and break testing
754 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
755 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
756 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
757 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
758 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
759 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
760 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
761 -O3 -march=skylake
762 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
763 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
764 crash
765 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
766 linked glibc
767 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
768 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
769 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
770 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
771 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
772 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
773 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
774 always implemented in the same library
775 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
776 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
777 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
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782
783Major new features:
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786 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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789 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
790 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
791 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
792 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
793 configured location.
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798 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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800* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
801 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
802 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
803 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
804 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
805 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
806 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
807 process actually does not use HTM).
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810 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
811 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
812 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
813 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
814 of the same name.
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816* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
817 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
818 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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820 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
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822* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
823 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
824 supported:
825 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
826 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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829 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
830 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
831 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
832 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
833 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
834 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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837 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
838 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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843 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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846 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
847 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
848 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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851 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
852 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
853 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
854 structures.
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857 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
858 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
859 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
860 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
861 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
862
863 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
864 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
865 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
866 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
867 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
868
869 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
870 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
871 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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874
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878 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
879
880 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
881 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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885 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
886 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
887 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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890 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
891 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
892 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
893 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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895 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
896 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
897 or command injection issues in applications.
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901 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
902 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
903 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
904 thousands
905 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
906 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
907 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
908 --param options)
909 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
910 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
911 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
912 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
913 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
914 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
915 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
916 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
917 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
918 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
919 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
920 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
921 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
922 pointer argument is non-NULL
923 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
924 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
925 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
926 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
927 multithreads call popen
928 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
929 and pthread_create fails.
930 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
931 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
932 constructor
933 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
934 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
935 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
936 source tree
937 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
938 float
939 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
940 one error
941 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
942 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
943 linker
944 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
945 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
946 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
947 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
948 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
949 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
950 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
951 filesystems
952 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
953 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
954 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
955 functions
956 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
957 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
958 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
959 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
960 have wrong type
961 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
962 wrong type
963 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
964 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
965 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
966 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
967 threads
968 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
969 start.S
970 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
971 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
972 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
973 powerpc64le
974 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
975 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
976 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
977 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
978 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
979 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
980 strftime
981 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
982 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
983 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
984 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
985 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
986 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
987 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
988 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
989 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
990 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
991 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
992 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
993 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
994 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
995 tcache size
996 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
997 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
998 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
999 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1000 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1001 (CVE-2018-19591)
1002 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1003 nearest rounding mode
1004 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1005 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1006 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1007 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1008 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1009 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1010 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1011 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1012 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1013 error
1014 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1015 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1016 using GCC 8
1017 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1018 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1019 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1020 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1021 ppc64le
1022 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1023 expected result
1024 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1025 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1026 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1027 sigaltstack
1028 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1029 answers will be rejected)
1030 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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1034
1035Major new features:
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1037* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
1038 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1039 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1040 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1041 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1042 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1043 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1044 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1045 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1046 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1047 archive or binary locales.
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1049* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
1050 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1051 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1052 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1053 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1054 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1055 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1056 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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1058 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1059 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1060 validated for i686.
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1062* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
1063 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1064 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1065 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1066 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1067 field) to indicate such support is required.
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1069* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1070 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1071 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1072
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1073* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1074 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1075
1076 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1077 fMxaddfNx functions.
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1079 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1080 fMxsubfNx functions.
1081
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1082 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1083 fMxmulfNx functions.
1084
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1085 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1086 fMxdivfNx functions.
1087
e607a352 1088* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 1089 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 1090 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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1091 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
1092 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 1094* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 1095 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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1097* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
1098 patches.
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1100* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
1101 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1102 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1103 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1104 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1105 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1106 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1107 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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1110 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1111 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1112 the fstatat64 function.
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1114* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1115 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1116 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1117 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1118 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1119 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1120 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1121 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1122 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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1125 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1126 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1127 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1128 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1129 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1130 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1131 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1132 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1133 results in a load failure now.
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1135* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
1136 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1137 <threads.h>:
1138
1139 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1140 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1141
1142 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1143 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1144
1145 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1146
1147 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1148 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1149
1150 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1151
1152 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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1156* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1157 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1158 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1159
1160* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1161 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1162 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1163 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1164 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1165 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1166
1167* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1168 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1169 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1170 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1171 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1172 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1173 (Bug #1190.)
1174
1175* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1176 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1177 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1178 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1179 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1180 further explanation.
1181
1182 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1183 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1184 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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1186* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
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1188* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1189 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1190 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
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1192* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1193 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1194 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1195 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
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1197* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1198 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1199 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1200 for this function instead.
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1202* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1203 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1204 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1205
1206* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1207 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1208 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1209 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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1211* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1212 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1213 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1214 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1215 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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1217* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1218 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1219 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1220 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1221 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1222 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1223 such as libgcrypt.
1224
1225* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1226 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1227 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1228 enabled.
1229
1230* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1231 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1232 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1233
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1235 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1236 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1237 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1238 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1239 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1240
1241 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1242 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1243 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1244 behavior in a future release.
1245
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1247
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1250Security related changes:
1251
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1252 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1253 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1254 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1255 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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1257 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1258 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1259
1260 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1261 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1262 Izbyshev.
1263
1264 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1265 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1266 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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1270 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1271 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1272 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1273 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1274 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1275 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1276 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1277 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1278 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1279 14651
1280 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1281 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1282 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1283 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1284 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1285 conversion is given
1286 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1287 date
1288 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1289 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1290 scope with -O1 and higher
1291 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1292 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1293 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1294 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1295 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1296 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1297 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1298 horrible machine code)
1299 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1300 last constant.
1301 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1302 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1303 symbols
1304 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1305 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1306 defined
1307 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1308 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1309 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1310 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1311 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1312 fpscr.c'
1313 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1314 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1315 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1316 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1317 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1318 the base address
1319 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1320 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1321 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1322 open_verify
1323 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1324 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1325 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1326 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1327 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1328 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1329 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1330 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1331 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1332 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1333 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1334 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1335 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1336 dlopen
1337 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1338 AT_SECURE=1
1339 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1340 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1341 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1342 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1343 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1344 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1345 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1346 for Spanish with CLDR
1347 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1348 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1349 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1350 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1351 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1352 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1353 es_BO
1354 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1355 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
1356 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1357 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1358 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1359 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1360 dlopen failures
1361 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1362 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1363 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1364 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1365 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1366 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1367 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1368 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1369 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1370 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1371 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1372 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1373 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1374 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1375 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1376 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1377 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1378 makecontext
1379 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1380 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1381 required
1382 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1383 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1384 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1385 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1386 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1387 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1388 disabled
1389 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1390 failure
1391 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1392 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1393 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1394 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1395 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1396 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1397 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1398 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1399 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1400 and libc build with -Os)
1401 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1402 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1403 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1404 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1405 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1406 that changes /etc/passwd
1407 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1408 (CVE-2018-11237)
1409 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1410 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1411 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1412 posix/regcomp.c
1413 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1414 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1415 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1416 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1417 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1418 AT_SECURE
1419 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1420 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1421 parser.c
1422 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1423 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1424 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1425 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1426 directed rounding
1427 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1428 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1429 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1430 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1431 lookup
1432 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1433 interposition
1434 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1435 DSO boundaries.
1436 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1437 <linux/time.h>
1438 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1439 checking
1440 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1441 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1442 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1443 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1444 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1445 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1446 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1447 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1448 processors
1449 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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1452Version 2.27
1453
1454Major new features:
1455
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1456* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1457 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 1458 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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1459 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1460 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1461 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1462 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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1463 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1464 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 1465
ac817e08 1466* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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1467 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1468 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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1470* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
1471
4cf82d23 1472* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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1474* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1475 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1476 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1477 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1478 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1479 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1480 from a security and performance perspective.
1481
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1482* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1483 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1484 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1485 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1486
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1488 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
1489 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1490 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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1491 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1492
a23aa5b7 1493* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 1494 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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1495 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1496 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1497 _Float128.
1498
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1499* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1500 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1501 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 1502
4bab0224 1503* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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1505* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1506 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1507 pkey_get.
1508
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1509* The copy_file_range function was added.
1510
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1511* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1512
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1513* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1514 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1515 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
1516
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1517* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
1518 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1519 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1520 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1521 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1522 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1523 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1524
1525 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1526 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1527 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1528 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1529 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1530 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1531 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1532
1533 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1534 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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1535 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1536 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1537 respectively.
1538
1539 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1540 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1541 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1542 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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1544 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1545 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1546 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1547
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1548 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
1549 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 1550 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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1552* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
1553 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1554 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1555
1556 - rv64imac lp64
1557 - rv64imafdc lp64
1558 - rv64imafdc lp64d
1559
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1560Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1561
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1562* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1563 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 1564 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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1565 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1566 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1567 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1568 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1569 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1570 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1571 fix this.
1572
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1573* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1574 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1575 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1576
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1577* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1578 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1579 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1580 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1581 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1582 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1583 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1584 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1585 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1586 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1587 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1588 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1589 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1590 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1591 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1592 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1593 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1594 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1595 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1596 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1597 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1598 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1599 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1600 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1601 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1602 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1603
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1605 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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1607* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1608 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1609 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1610 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1611 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1612 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1613 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1614
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1615* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1616 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1617 exp10l for these functions instead.
1618
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1619* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1620 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1621 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1622
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1623* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1624 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1625 ignored.
1626
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1627* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1628 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1629 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1630 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1631
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1632* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1633 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1634
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1635* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1636 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
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1638* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1639 programs.
1640
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1641* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1642
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1643* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1644 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1645 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1646 instead.
1647
1648 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1649 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1650 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1651 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1652 use, but predates the bits convention.
1653
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1655
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1656* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1657 subdirectory.
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1659Security related changes:
1660
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1661 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1662 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1663 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1664 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1665 script.)
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1667 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1668 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1669 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1670 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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1672 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1673 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1674 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1675 of service.
1676
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1677 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1678 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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1679 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1680
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1681 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1682 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1683 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1684 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1685
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1686 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1687 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1688 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1689 Qualys.
1690
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1691 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1692 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1693 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1694 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1695 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1696
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1697 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1698 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1699 current directory.
1700
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1701 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1702 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1703 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1704
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1705 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1706 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1707 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1708
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1709 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1710 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1711 small, instead of NULL.
1712
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1714
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1715 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1716 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1717 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1718 locale
1719 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1720 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1721 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1722 cases
1723 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1724 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1725 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1726 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1727 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1728 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1729 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1730 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1731 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1732 "Bangla"
1733 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1734 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1735 width Latin characters
1736 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1737 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1738 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1739 letters
1740 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1741 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1742 (CVE-2009-5064)
1743 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1744 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1745 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1746 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1747 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1748 if malloc succeeded
1749 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1750 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1751 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1752 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1753 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1754 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1755 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1756 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1757 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1758 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1759 U+309A
1760 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1761 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1762 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1763 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1764 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1765 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1766 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1767 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1768 for Nicaragua
1769 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1770 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1771 are not found.
1772 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1773 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1774 access
1775 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1776 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1777 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1778 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1779 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1780 __regcall calling convention
1781 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1782 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1783 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1784 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1785 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1786 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1787 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1788 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1789 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1790 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1791 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1792 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1793 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1794 locale
1795 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1796 protector=all
1797 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1798 wcwidth
1799 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
1800 consistency check failures
1801 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
1802 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
1803 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
1804 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
1805 PIE
1806 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
1807 locales
1808 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
1809 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
1810 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
1811 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
1812 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
1813 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
1814 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
1815 on memory allocation failure
1816 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
1817 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
1818 the suspect)
1819 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
1820 default (i386)
1821 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
1822 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
1823 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
1824 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
1825 instead of EAI_NODATA
1826 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
1827 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
1828 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
1829 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
1830 implementation
1831 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
1832 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
1833 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
1834 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
1835 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
1836 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
1837 allocation in syscall loops)
1838 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
1839 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
1840 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
1841 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
1842 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
1843 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
1844 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
1845 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
1846 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
1847 occur with -O3
1848 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
1849 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1850 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
1851 amounts)
1852 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
1853 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
1854 niu_NZ
1855 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
1856 checks
1857 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
1858 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
1859 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
1860 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
1861 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
1862 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
1863 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
1864 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
1865 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
1866 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
1867 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
1868 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
1869 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
1870 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
1871 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
1872 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
1873 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
1874 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
1875 parsing after OOM
1876 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
1877 object
1878 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
1879 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
1880 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
1881 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
1882 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
1883 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
1884 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
1885 ppc64le
1886 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
1887 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
1888 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
1889 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
1890 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
1891 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
1892 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
1893 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
1894 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
1895 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
1896 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
1897 math_force_eval
1898 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
1899 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
1900 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1901 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1902 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1903 the svid compat wrapper
1904 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1905 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1906 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1907 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1908 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1909 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1910 --verbose.
1911 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1912 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1913 to 2.26
1914 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1915 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1916 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1917 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1918 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1919 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1920 (CVE-2017-15804)
1921 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1922 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1923 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1924 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1925 failure."
1926 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1927 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1928 -m32
1929 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1930 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1931 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1932 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1933 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1934 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1935 inside the ASCII printable range
1936 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1937 -mlong-double-64
1938 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1939 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1940 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1941 Internet
1942 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1943 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1944 backslash
1945 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1946 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1947 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1948 heaps in an arena
1949 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1950 networking interface
1951 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1952 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1953 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1954 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1955 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1956 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1957 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1958 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1959 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1960 order
1961 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1962 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1963 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1964 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1965 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1966 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1967 same as for Croatian
1968 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1969 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1970 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1971 for initial thread"
1972 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1973 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1974 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1975 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1976 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1977 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1978 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1979 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1980 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1981 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1982 modified in case of success
1983 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1984 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1985 success
1986 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1987 stack-protector=all
1988 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1989 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1990 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1991 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1992 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1993 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1994 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1995 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1996 adding it on top
1997 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1998 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1999 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2000 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2001 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2002 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2003 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2004 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2005 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2006 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2007 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2008 elision and tunables
2009 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2010 "invalid" exception
2011 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2012 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2013 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2014 exception
2015 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2016 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2017 power4
2018 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2019 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2020 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2021 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2022 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2023 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2024 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2025 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2026 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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2029Version 2.26
2030
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2031Major new features:
2032
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2033* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2034 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2035 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2036 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2037 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2038 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2039 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2040
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2041* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2042 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 2043 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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2044 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2045 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2046 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2047 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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2049* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2050 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2051 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 2052
2b2ccd0c 2053* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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2055 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2056 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2057 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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2059 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2060 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2061 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2062 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2063 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 2064
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2065 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2066 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2067 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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2069* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2070 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 2071
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2072* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2073 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2074 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2075 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 2076
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2077* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2078 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2079 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2080 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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2082* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2083 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2084 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2085 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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2087* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2088 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2089 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 2090
2b2ccd0c 2091* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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2092 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2093 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2094 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 2095
2b2ccd0c 2096 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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2097 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2098 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2099 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2100 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2101
2102 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2103 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2104 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2105 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2106 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2107 interfaces should be used instead.
f819dbea 2108
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2109Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2110
2111* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2112 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2113 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2114 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2115 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2116 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2117 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2118 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2119
2120* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2121 removed.
2122
2123* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 2124 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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2125 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2126 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2127
2128* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2129 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2130 default.
2131
2132 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2133 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2134 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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2135 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2136 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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2138 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2139 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2140 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2141 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2142
2143* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2144 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2145 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2146 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2147
2148* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2149 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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2151* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2152 exported by accident.
2153
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2154* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2155 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2156 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2157
2158* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2159 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2160 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2161 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2162
2163* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2164
2165* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2166
2167* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2168 free instead.
2169
2170* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2171 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2172
2173* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2174 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2175
2176* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2177 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2178 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2179 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2180 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2181 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2182 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2183 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2184
2185* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2186 synced with the kernel:
2187
2188 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2189 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2190
2191 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2192 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2193 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2194
2195 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2196 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2197
2198Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2199
2200* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2201 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2202 x86-32 and x86-64.)
2203
7e368000 2204* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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2207 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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2209 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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2210 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2211 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2212 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 2213 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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2216
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2218 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2219
2220* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2221 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2222
2223* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2224 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2225 (CVE-2010-3192).
2226
2227* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2228 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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2230The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2231
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2232 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2233 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2234 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2235 fields
2236 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2237 (CVE-2010-3192)
2238 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2239 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2240 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2241 ld.bfd is available
2242 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2243 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2244 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2245 x86 and other generic code
2246 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2247 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2248 incorrect
2249 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2250 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2251 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2252 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2253 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2254 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2255 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2256 resolver
2257 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2258 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2259 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2260 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2261 chillu characters
2262 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2263 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2264 receiving data
2265 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2266 whitespace
2267 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2268 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2269 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2270 for Peru
2271 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2272 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2273 failures consistently
2274 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2275 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2276 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2277 frame-pointer on i386
2278 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2279 register
2280 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2281 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2282 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2283 generic c code is used
2284 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2285 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2286 around 4000
2287 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2288 (CVE-2017-12133)
2289 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2290 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2291 with -lieee
2292 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2293 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2294 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2295 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2296 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2297 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2298 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2299 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2300 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2301 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2302 remove()
2303 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2304 checked for errors.
2305 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2306 new posix_spawn implementation
2307 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2308 leads to lower CPU frequency
2309 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2310 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2311 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2312 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2313 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2314 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2315 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2316 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2317 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2318 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2319 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2320 not support gethostbyname4_r
2321 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2322 switching
2323 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2324 arenas
2325 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2326 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2327 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2328 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2329 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2330 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2331 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2332 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2333 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2334 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2335 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2336 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2337 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2338 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2339 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2340 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2341 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2342 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2343 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2344 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2345 retry value
2346 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2347 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2348 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2349 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2350 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2351 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2352 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2353 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2354 [21537] libc:
2355 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2356 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2357 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2358 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2359 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2360 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2361 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2362 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2363 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2364 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2365 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2366 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2367 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2368 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2369 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2370 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2371 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2372 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2373 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2374 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2375 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2376 issue on x86-64
2377 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2378 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2379 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2380 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2381 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2382 construction
2383 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2384 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2385 between_2_3
2386 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2387 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2388 conditions
2389 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2390 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2391 Hindi Locale
2392 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2393 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2394 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2395 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2396 locale
2397 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2398 leading to relocation crash
2399 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2400 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2401 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2402 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2403 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2404 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2405 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2406 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2407 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2408 locale
2409 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2410 locale
2411 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2412 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2413 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2414 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2415 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2416 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2417 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2418 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2419 strings
2420 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2421 protector=all
2422 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2423 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
2424 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2425 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2426 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2427 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2428 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2429 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2430 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2431 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2432 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2433 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2434 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2435 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2436 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2437 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2438 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2439 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2440 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2441 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2442 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2443 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2444 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2445 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2446 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2447 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2448 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2449 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2450 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2451 with unicode 9.0
2452 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2453 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2454 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2455 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2456 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 2457
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2459Version 2.25
2460
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2461* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2462 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2463 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2464 Library.
e720d3d9 2465
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2466* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2467 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 2468 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
bf91be88
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2469 the GNU C Library.
2470
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2471* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2472 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2473 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2474 the GNU C Library.
2475
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2476* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2477 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2478 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2479 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2480 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2481 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2482 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2483 will not.
2484
2485 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2486 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2487 many years.
2488
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2489* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2490 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2491 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2492
2493 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2494 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2495 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2496 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2497 problem.
2498
ec94343f 2499* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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2500 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2501 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 2502
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2503* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2504 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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2505 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2506 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2507 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2508 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2509 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2510 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2511 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2512 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2513 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2514 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 2515
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2516* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2517
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2518 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2519
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2520 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2521 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2522 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 2523
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2524 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2525 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2526
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2527 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2528 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2529
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2530 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2531
29cb9293 2532 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 2533
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2534 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2535 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 2536
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2537 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2538
eb3c12c7 2539 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 2540 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 2541
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2542* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2543 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2544
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2545* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2546 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2547 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2548
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2549* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2550 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2551 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2552 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2553 effects of the memory clear).
2554
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2555* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2556 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2557 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2558 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2559
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2560* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2561 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2562 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2563 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2564 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2565 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 2566
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2567* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2568 have been added.
2569
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2570* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2571 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2572 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2573 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2574 as large as several megabytes.
2575
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2576* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2577 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2578 been removed.
2579
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2580* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2581 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2582 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2583 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2584 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2585 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2586 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2587
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2588* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2589 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2590 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2591 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2592
099191b1 2593* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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2594 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2595 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2596 Internet.
2597
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2598* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2599 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2600 They were already unimplemented.
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2602* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2603 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2604 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2605 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2606
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2607* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2608 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2609 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2610 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2611 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2612
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2613* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2614 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2615 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2616 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2617 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2618
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2619* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2620 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2621 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2622 did not reflect that.
2623
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2624* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2625 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2626 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2627 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2628 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2629 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2630 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2631 'gcc/config.gcc'.
2632
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2633* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2634 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2635 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2636 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2637
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2638* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2639 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2640 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2641 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2642
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2643* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2644 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2645 guarantees.
2646
2647* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2648 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2649 make state changes.
2650
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2651Security related changes:
2652
fc82b0a2 2653* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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2654 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2655 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2656 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 2657 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 2658
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FW
2659* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2660 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2661 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2662 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2663 (CVE-2015-5180)
2664
e720d3d9
CD
2665The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2666
4e054e6b
SP
2667 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
2668 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2669 protector-all
2670 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2671 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2672 before it started waiting
2673 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2674 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2675 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2676 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2677 wrong type
2678 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2679 library linked with pthread
2680 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2681 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2682 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2683 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2684 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2685 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2686 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2687 when it shouldnt
2688 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2689 not
2690 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2691 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2692 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2693 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2694 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2695 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2696 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2697 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2698 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2699 termination
2700 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2701 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2702 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2703 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2704 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2705 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2706 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2707 causes a segmentation fault
2708 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2709 linking
2710 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2711 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2712 uninitialized GOT
2713 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2714 versions
2715 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2716 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2717 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2718 is always true.
2719 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2720 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2721 modes
2722 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2723 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2724 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2725 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2726 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2727 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2728 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2729 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2730 libpthread.a
2731 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2732 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2733 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2734 _res_hconf
2735 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2736 information.
2737 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2738 penalty
2739 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2740 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2741 cause transition penalty
2742 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2743 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2744 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2745 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2746 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2747 mcount.oS)
2748 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2749 Checking
2750 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2751 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2752 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2753 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2754 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2755 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2756 multi-arch
2757 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2758 (RES_USEBSTRING)
2759 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2760 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2761 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2762 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2763 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2764 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2765 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2766 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2767 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2768 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2769 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2770 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2771 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2772 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2773 glibc
2774 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2775 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2776 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2777 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2778 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2779 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2780 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2781 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2782 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2783 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2784 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2785 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2786 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2787 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2788 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2789 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2790 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2791 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2792 RES_USE_INET6
2793 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2794 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2795 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2796 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2797 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2798 wrong condition
2799 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2800 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
2801 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
2802 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
2803 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
2804 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
2805 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
2806 clang
2807 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
2808 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
2809 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
2810 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
2811 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 2812\f
11fca961
AZ
2813Version 2.24
2814
5b4ecd3f
JM
2815* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2816 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
2817 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
2818 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
2819 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
2820 architectures.
2821
b6ebba70
MF
2822* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
2823 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
2824 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 2825
7584a3f9
FW
2826* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
2827 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
2828
b49ab5f4
FW
2829* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
2830 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
2831 instead of “union wait”.
2832
ced8f893
SG
2833* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
2834 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
2835 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
2836 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
2837 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
2838 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
2839 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
2840
2ba3cfa1
FW
2841* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
2842 API.
2843
b7a9b7b0
MF
2844* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
2845 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
2846 drop it.
6a54bcda 2847
41a359e2
RS
2848* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
2849 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
2850 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
2851 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
2852 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
2853 extensions.
2854
11fca961
AZ
2855Security related changes:
2856
f5b3338d
FW
2857* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
2858 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
2859 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
2860
4ab2ab03
FW
2861* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
2862 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
2863 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
2864 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 2865
5171f307
FW
2866* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
2867 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
2868 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
2869
bc779a1a
FW
2870* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
2871 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
2872 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
2873
fab38231
FW
2874* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
2875 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
2876 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
2877 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
2878
11fca961
AZ
2879The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2880
3c4f81ec
CD
2881 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
2882 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
2883 of MS-DOS.
2884 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
2885 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
2886 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
2887 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
2888 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
2889 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
2890 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
2891 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
2892 CLDR data
2893 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
2894 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
2895 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
2896 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
2897 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
2898 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
2899 romanisation
2900 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2901 and +/-
2902 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2903 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2904 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2905 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2906 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2907 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2908 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2909 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2910 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2911 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2912 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2913 all locales
2914 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2915 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2916 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2917 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2918 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2919 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2920 execute
2921 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2922 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2923 -Wsystem-headers
2924 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2925 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2926 Romanian locale data
2927 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2928 symbol
2929 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2930 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2931 language
2932 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2933 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2934 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2935 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2936 machine
2937 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2938 description
2939 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2940 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2941 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2942 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2943 when using RTLD_NEXT
2944 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2945 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2946 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2947 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2948 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2949 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2950 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2951 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2952 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2953 Excavator core
2954 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2955 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2956 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2957 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2958 double range
2959 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2960 part zero incorrect
2961 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2962 equality tests
2963 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2964 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2965 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2966 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2967 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2968 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2969 glibc-2.22
2970 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2971 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2972 'tst-numeric.c'
2973 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2974 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2975 low part
2976 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2977 result
2978 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2979 unaligned stack
2980 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2981 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2982 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2983 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2984 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2985 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2986 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2987 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2988 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2989 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2990 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2991 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2992 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2993 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2994 modes
2995 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2996 server addresses
2997 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2998 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2999 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3000 response to getaddrinfo
3001 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3002 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3003 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3004 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3005 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3006 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3007 sometimes incorrect
3008 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3009 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3010 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3011 record types
3012 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3013 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3014 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3015 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3016 (CVE-2016-3075)
3017 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3018 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3019 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3020 resolving symbols
3021 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3022 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3023 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3024 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3025 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3026 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3027 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3028 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3029 gethosts
3030 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3031 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3032 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3033 (CVE-2016-3706)
3034 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3035 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3036 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3037 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3038 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3039 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3040 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3041 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3042 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3043 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3044 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3045 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3046 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3047 executable
3048 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3049 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3050 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3051 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3052 XPG3
3053 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3054 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3055 (CVE-2016-4429)
3056 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3057 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3058 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3059 AS not supporting AVX512
3060 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3061 sNaN argument
3062 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3063 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3064 argument
3065 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3066 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3067 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3068 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3069 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3070 eax=0x80000001
3071 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3072 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3073 subnormals
3074 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3075 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3076 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3077 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3078 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3079 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3080 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3081 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3082 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3083 input
3084 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3085 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3086 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3087 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3088 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3089 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3090 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3091 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3092 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3093 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3094 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3095 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3096 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3097 double rounding
3098 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3099 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3100 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3101 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3102 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3103 (Only arm/linux)
3104 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3105 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3106 fallbacks
3107 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3108 "invalid" exceptions
3109 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3110 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3111 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3112 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3113 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3114 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3115 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3116 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3117 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 3118\f
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3119Version 2.23
3120
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3121* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3122 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3123 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3124 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3125 89, 16061, and 18568.
3126
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3127* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3128 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3129 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3130 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3131 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3132 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3133 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3134
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3135* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3136 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3137 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3138
2eecc8af
FW
3139* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3140 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3141 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3142 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3143 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3144 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3145 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3146
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3147* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3148 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3149 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3150 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3151 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 3152 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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3153 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3154 Ericsson.)
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3156* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3157 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3158 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3159 independent of the GNU C Library.
3160
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3161* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3162 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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3164* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3165 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3166 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3167 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3168 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3169 Linux kernel.
3170
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3171* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3172 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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3174* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3175 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3176 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3177 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3178 defining their own copy.
3179
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3180* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3181 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3182 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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3184Security related changes:
3185
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3186* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3187 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3188
3189* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3190 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3191 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3192 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3193 (CVE-2015-8777)
3194
3195* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3196 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3197
3198* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3199 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3200
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3201* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3202 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 3203 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 3204
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3205* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3206 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3207 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3208 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3209 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3210 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3211 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3212 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3213 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3214 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3215 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3216 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3217 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3218
ad372e29 3219The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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3221 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3222 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3223 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3224 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3225 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3226 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3227 use `mkstemp'
3228 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3229 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3230 overflow/underflow errors
3231 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3232 overflow/underflow
3233 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3234 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3235 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3236 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3237 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3238 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3239 are not contiguous
3240 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3241 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3242 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3243 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3244 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3245 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3246 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3247 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3248 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3249 all exceptions
3250 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3251 arguments
3252 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3253 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3254 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3255 should include
3256 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3257 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3258 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3259 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3260 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3261 GNU/Linux
3262 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3263 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3264 arguments
3265 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3266 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3267 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3268 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3269 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3270 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3271 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3272 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3273 rounding results
3274 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3275 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3276 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3277 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3278 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3279 fails
3280 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3281 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3282 block boundary
3283 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3284 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3285 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3286 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3287 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3288 4.7?
3289 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3290 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3291 (related to lock elision)
3292 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3293 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3294 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3295 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3296 (CVE-2015-8779)
3297 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3298 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3299 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3300 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3301 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3302 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3303 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3304 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3305 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3306 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3307 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3308 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3309 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3310 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3311 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3312 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3313 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3314 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3315 contains a vector instruction exception.
3316 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3317 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3318 locales
3319 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3320 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3321 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3322 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3323 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3324 missing break ?
3325 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3326 32bit processes
3327 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3328 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3329 infinity
3330 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3331 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3332 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3333 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3334 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3335 be forced unloaded
3336 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3337 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3338 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3339 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3340 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3341 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3342 statically too large
3343 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3344 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3345 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3346 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3347 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3348 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3349 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3350 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3351 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3352 FUTEX_SHARED
3353 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3354 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3355 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3356 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3357 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3358 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3359 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3360 opendir()
3361 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3362 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3363 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3364 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3365 signgam
3366 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3367 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3368 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3369 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3370 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3371 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3372 dependencies
3373 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3374 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3375 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3376 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3377 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3378 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3379 (CVE-2015-8776)
3380 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3381 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3382 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3383 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3384 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3385 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3386 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3387 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3388 contention
3389 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3390 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3391 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3392 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3393 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3394 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3395 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3396 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3397 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3398 rounding modes
3399 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3400 ILP32
3401 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3402 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3403 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3404 threshold
3405 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3406 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3407 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3408 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3409 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3410 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3411 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3412 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3413 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3414 pthread_setaffinity_np
3415 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3416 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3417 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3418 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3419 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3420 prelink
3421 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3422 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3423 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3424 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3425 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3426 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3427 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3428 bits/mathcalls.h
3429 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3430 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3431 for C99-based standards
3432 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3433 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3434 math-only
3435 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3436 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3437 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3438 disabled
3439 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3440 "inexact" exceptions
3441 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3442 arguments
3443 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3444 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3445 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3446 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3447 rules
3448 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3449 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3450 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3451 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3452 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3453 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3454 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3455 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3456 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3457 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3458 from 32bit
3459 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3460 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3461 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3462 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3463 subnormals
3464 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3465 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3466 error on 32-bit architectures
3467 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3468 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3469 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3470 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3471 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3472 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3473 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3474 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3475 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3476 -Os
3477 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3478 CPU's.
3479 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3480 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3481 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3482 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3483 architectures
3484 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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3486Version 2.22
3487
3488* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3489
3df5cd98 3490 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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3491 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3492 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3493 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3494 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3495 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3496 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3497 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3498 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3499 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3500 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3501 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3502 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3503 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3504 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3505 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3506 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3507 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
3508 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3509 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 3510
f7fba805
SL
3511* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3512 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3513
2959eda9
AS
3514* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3515 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3516 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3517 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3518 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3519 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 3520
42261ad7
FW
3521* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3522 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3523 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3524 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3525 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3526
afcd9480
AM
3527* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3528 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3529 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3530
4a4839c9
AO
3531* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3532 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3533 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3534 17998.
3535
b13b96ca
AS
3536* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3537 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3538 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
3539
3540* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
3541 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3542 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
3543 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3544 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
3545 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3546 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 3547 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
3548
3549* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3550 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3551 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3552 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
3553
3554* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3555 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3556 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
3557
3558* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3559 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
3560
3561* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3562 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3563 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3564
a03ba363 3565 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
3566 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3567 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 3568\f
58b930ae
SP
3569Version 2.21
3570
3571* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3572
042e1521 3573 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
3574 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3575 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3576 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3577 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3578 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3579 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3580 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3581 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3582 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3583 17892.
3584
46d54873
FW
3585* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3586 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3587 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3588 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3589 intended.
042e1521
CD
3590
3591* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3592 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3593 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3594 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3595 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3596 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 3597
522e6ee3
CLT
3598* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3599
d3b00f46
AZ
3600* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3601 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 3602 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 3603
8d2c0a59
AZ
3604* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3605 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3606 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3607 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3608 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3609 effects being visible outside transactions.
3610
dc400d7b
RE
3611* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3612 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 3613
0f9dfe04
L
3614* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3615
a39208bd
CD
3616* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3617 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 3618 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
3619 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3620 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 3621
a5357b7c
JL
3622* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3623 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3624
e54db0ea
AM
3625* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3626 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3627 format.
11e3417a 3628
4863355a
JM
3629* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3630 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3631 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3632
a4ecc9eb
JM
3633* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3634 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3635
0d560bbf 3636* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
3637
3638* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3639 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3640 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3641 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
3642
3643* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3644 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
3645
3646* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3647 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3648 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3649 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3650 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3651 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3652 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3653 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3654 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3655 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3656 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3657 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3658 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3659
3660 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3661 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3662 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3663 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3664 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 3665\f
d5b396c1
AM
3666Version 2.20
3667
3668* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3669
6a9350c8
JM
3670 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3671 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3672 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3673 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3674 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3675 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3676 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3677 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3678 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3679 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3680 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3681 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3682 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3683 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3684 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 3685
95ee7fb1
SL
3686* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3687 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3688 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3689 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3690 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 3691 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
3692 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3693 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3694 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3695 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3696
0961f7e1
JL
3697* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3698 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3699 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3700 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3701 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 3702
f940b965
RE
3703* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3704
d0f5b3f8
JM
3705* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3706 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3707
d6fe5e58
JM
3708* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3709 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3710 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3711 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3712 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3713 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3714
464263cc
JM
3715* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3716 from ports.
c941736c
JM
3717
3718* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3719 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3720 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3721 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3722 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3723 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3724 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
3725
3726* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
3727
3728* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3729 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3730 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3731 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3732 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3733 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3734 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
3735
3736* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3737 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3738 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3739 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3740 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
3741
3742* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3743 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3744 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
3745
3746* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3747 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3748 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3749 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
3750
3751* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3752 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3753 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3754 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3755 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3756 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3757 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3758 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
3759
3760* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3761 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3762 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3763 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3764 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3765 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3766 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3767 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3768 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
3769
3770* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3771 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3772 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3773 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3774 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 3775 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
3776
3777* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3778 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3779 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3780 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
3781\f
3782Version 2.19
3783
3784* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3785
fd2f9486
JM
3786 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3787 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3788 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3789 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3790 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3791 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3792 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3793 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3794 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3795 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
3796 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3797 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3798 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
3799 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
3800 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
3801 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
3802 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
3803 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 3804
11520a57
CD
3805* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
3806 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
3807
2fe16229
CD
3808* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
3809 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
3810 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
3811 extension which uses __block.
3812
303e567a
SP
3813* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
3814 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
3815 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
3816 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
3817 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
3818
141f3a77
SP
3819* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
3820 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
3821 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
3822 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
3823 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
3824
3825* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
3826 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
3827 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
3828 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
3829 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
3830
3831* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
3832 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
3833 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
3834
ba0d798c
WN
3835* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
3836 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
3837 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
3838 #15856, #15857).
3839
7cbcdb36
SP
3840* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
3841 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
3842
82bab04b 3843* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 3844 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 3845
c5f840fd
MB
3846* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
3847
3e181dda
CD
3848* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
3849 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 3850
3e181dda 3851* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 3852
8a05c252
CL
3853* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
3854
6055173a
JM
3855* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
3856 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
3857 for which the C library was built.
3858
b125d3e5
JM
3859* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
3860 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
3861 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
3862 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
3863 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
3864 in the following circumstances:
3865
3866 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
3867
3868 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
3869 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
3870
d4f66d37
JM
3871* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
3872 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
3873
3e181dda
CD
3874* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
3875 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 3876
ffb89e53
AO
3877* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
3878
5d29ccce
SP
3879* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
3880 transcendental functions have been introduced.
3881
8b7d57cd 3882* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
3883
3884* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 3885
fd712ef3 3886* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 3887
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3888* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
3889 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
3890 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
3891 disable some of those declarations.
3892
7011c262 3893* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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3894 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
3895 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
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3896
3897* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
3898 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
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3899
3900* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3901 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3902 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3903 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3904 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3905 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3906 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3907 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3908 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3909 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3910 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3911 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3912 require recompilation.
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3914Version 2.18
3915
3916* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3917
17db6e8d 3918 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
3919 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3920 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
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3921 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3922 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3923 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3924 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3925 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3926 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3927 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3928 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3929 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3930 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3931 15755, 15759.
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3932
3933* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3934 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3935 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3936 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3937 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3938 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 3939
5b535ac4
AS
3940* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3941 #15078).
3942
1cef1b19
AS
3943* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3944 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 3945
55e4107b
SP
3946* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3947 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3948 destructor calls to glibc.
3949
e5c74c63
SP
3950* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3951 output.
3952
3953* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3954 non-x86 architectures.
3955
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3956* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3957
3958* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3959
3960* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3961 Richard Henderson.
3962
3963* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3964
3965* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3966 Richard Henderson.
3967
3968* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3969 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3970
8cfdb7e0
SP
3971* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3972
57267616
TS
3973* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3974 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 3975
c204ab28
SP
3976* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3977 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 3978
0748546f
PE
3979* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3980 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3981 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3982
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3983* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3984 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3985 attributes of a process.
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3986
3987* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3988 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3989 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3990 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3991 mutexes.
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3992
3993* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3994 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3995
3996* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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3998Version 2.17
3999
4000* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4001
80ceeaee 4002 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
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4003 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4004 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4005 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4006 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4007 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4008 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4009 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4010 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4011 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4012 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4013 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4014 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4015 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4016 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 4017
95b4f1b6
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4018* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4019
14bc93a9
JL
4020* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4021 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 4022
b54eb3cb
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4023* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4024 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4025
7e2bd01f
MS
4026* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4027
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4028* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4029 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4030 zEnterprise z196.
4031 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4032
84b3fd84
FW
4033* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4034 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4035 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4036
815e6fa3
GB
4037* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4038 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4039
400726de
MK
4040* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4041 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4042
7aab07e4 4043* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 4044 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 4045
15d0da8c
WS
4046* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4047 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4048
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4049* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4050 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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4051 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4052 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 4053
b54eb3cb
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4054* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4055 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4056
85429b1a 4057* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 4058 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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4059 default.
4060
b54eb3cb
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4061* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4062 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4063 information in --help and --version output.
4064
050af9c4
SP
4065* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4066 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4067 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4068
89a3ad0b
AO
4069* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4070 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4071 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4072 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4073 when the mode is enabled.
4074
6e6249d0
RM
4075* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4076 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4077 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4078 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4079 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4080 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4081 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 4082
d9286582
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4083* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4084 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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4085\f
4086Version 2.16
4087
4088* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4089
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4090 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4091 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4092 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4093 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4094 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4095 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4096 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4097 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4098 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4099 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4100 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4101 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4102 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4103 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4104 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4105 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4106 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4107 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4108 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4109 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4110 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4111 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4112 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 4113
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4114* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4115 configuring glibc with:
4116 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 4117 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
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4118 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4119
380d7e87
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4120* ISO C11 support:
4121
4122 + define static_assert
4123
4124 + do not declare gets
4125
4126 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4127
4128 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4129 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4130 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4131 implementation.
8d44e150 4132
74033a25 4133 + timespec_get added
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4134
4135 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 4136
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4137 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4138
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4139 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4140
9dc4e1fb 4141* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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4142
4143* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
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4144
4145* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4146 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
4147
4148* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4149 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
4150
4151* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4152 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4153 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4154 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4155 existing applications.
ffb7875d 4156
21708942 4157* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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4158 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4159 before 2.6.
83678f76 4160
edb00e4d
RH
4161* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4162 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4163 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4164
83678f76 4165* New locales: mag_IN
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RM
4166
4167* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4168 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4169 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4170 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4171 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
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4172
4173* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4174
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4175* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4176 and Will Schmidt.
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4177
4178* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4179
4180* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4181 without a previously built glibc.
4182
4183* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4184 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4185
4186* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4187 now supported for ARM processors.
4188
4189* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4190 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4191 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4192
4193* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4194
4195* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4196 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4197 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4198 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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4199
4200* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4201 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4202 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4203 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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4204
4205* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4206 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4207 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4208 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4209 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4210
4211* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4212 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4213 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4214 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 4215\f
e80fab37 4216Version 2.15
11988f8f 4217
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4218* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4219
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4220 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4221 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4222 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4223 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4224 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4225 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4226 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 4227
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4228* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4229 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
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4230
4231* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4232 and support for initgroups lookups.
4233 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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L
4234
4235* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4236 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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4237
4238* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4239 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 4240
fc2ee42a
LD
4241* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4242 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 4243 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 4244
d42964a0 4245* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
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4246 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4247
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4248* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4249 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
4250 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4251
c55fbd1e
UD
4252* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4253 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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4254
4255* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4256 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4257
4258* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4259 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
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4260
4261* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4262 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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4263
4264* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4265 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4266
4267* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4268 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4269
4270* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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4271
4272* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4273 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 4274
f0b264f1
AZ
4275* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4276 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 4277
6b64057b 4278* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 4279\f
dded88cd 4280Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 4281
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4282* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4283
553149f6 4284 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 4285 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 4286 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 4287 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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4288 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4289 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4290 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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4291 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4292 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 4293 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 4294
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4295* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4296 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4297 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 4298 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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4299
4300 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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4301 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4302 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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4303 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4304
c6489db3 4305* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 4306 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 4307
72d1dddb 4308* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 4309 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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4311* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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4313* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4314 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4316* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4317 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4318 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4319 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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4322
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4324
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4325 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4326 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4327 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4328 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4329 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 4330
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c08fb0d7 4332
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4335* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4336 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 4337 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4339Version 2.12
4340
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4342
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4343 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4344 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4345 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4346 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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4347 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4348 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4349 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 4350 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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4352* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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4354* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4355
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4356* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4357
4358* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4359 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4360 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4361
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4363 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4364 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4365 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4366 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4367
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4371
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4373
4374 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4375 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4376 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4377 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4378 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4379 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4380
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4381* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4382 mkostemps64
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4383 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4384
24ab9c76 4385* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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4386 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4387
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4388* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4389 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4390
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4391* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4392
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9d36a6c4 4394 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 4395 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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4397
9d36a6c4 4398 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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4399 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4400
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4401* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4402 strstr, strcasestr.
4403 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4404
4405* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4406 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4407
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4408* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4409 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4410
4411* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4412 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4413
4414* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4415 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4416 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4417 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4418 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4419 necessity is every process again.
4420 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4421
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4423 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4424
4425* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4426 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4427
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4428* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4429 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4430 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4431
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4435
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4436* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4437
4438 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4439 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4440 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4441 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4442 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4443
bb066545 4444* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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4445 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4446
425ce2ed 4447* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 4448 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 4449
1fdd89a7 4450* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 4451 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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4453* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4454 now in POSIX.
77db439e 4455
1f04d005 4456* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 4457 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4459* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4460 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4461
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4462* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4463 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4464
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4465* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4466 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4467
4468* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4469 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4470 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4471
735be400 4472* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 4473
84aa52d7 4474* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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4475 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4476
4477* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4478 and extend existing format specifiers.
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4479 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4480
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4481* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4482 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4483
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4484* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4485 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4486 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4487 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4488 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4489 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4491Version 2.9
4492
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4493* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4494
4495 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
4496 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
4497 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
4498 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
4499 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4500
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4502 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4503
4504* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4505 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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4507* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4508 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4510* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4511 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4512 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4513
4514* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4515 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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4518
4519* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 4520 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4522* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4523 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4524 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4525 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4526
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4527* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4528 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4530* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4531 Sinhala)
48b22986 4532 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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4534* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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4537
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4538* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4539
4540 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4541 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4542 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4543 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4544 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4545 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4546 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4547
e038616f 4548* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 4549
77751669 4550* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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4552* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4553 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4554
4555* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4556
4557* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4558 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4559
4560* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4561 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4562
4563* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4564 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4565 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4566
4567* Faster memset for x86-64.
4568 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4569
4570* Faster memcpy on x86.
4571 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4572
4573* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4574 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4576* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 4577 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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4579Version 2.7
4580
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4581* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4582
4583 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4584 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4585 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4586 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4587 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4588
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4589* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4590 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4591
4592* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4593
4594* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4595 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4596 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4597
4598* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4599 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4600
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4602 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4603
4604* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4605
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4606* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4607 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4608
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4609* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4610 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4611
4612* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4613 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4614
4615* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4616
4617* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4618 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4620* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4621 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4622 yo_NG.
4623
4624+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4625 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4630
4631 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4632 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4633 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4634 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4635 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4636 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4637 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4638 4702, 4858
4639
bce20b9a 4640* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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4642* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
4643
b21fa963 4644* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4646Version 2.5
4647
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4649
4650 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4651 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4652 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4653 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4654 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4655 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4656 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4657 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4658 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4659
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4661 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4662 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4664* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4665 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4666
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4669* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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4671* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4672 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4673 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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4675 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4676
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4678 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4679 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4680 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4681
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4683 Ulrich Drepper.
4684
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4685* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4686
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4687* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4688 Ulrich Drepper.
4689
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4690* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4691
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4692* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4693 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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4696
4697* More overflow detection functions.
4698
4699* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4700 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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4702 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4703 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4704 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4705 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4706 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4707 by Masahide Washizawa.
4708
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4709* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4710 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4712* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4713 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4714 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4715 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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4717* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4718 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4719
4720* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4721
4722* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4723 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4724 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4725
4726* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4727 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4728
4729* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4730 for compatibility with some other systems.
4731
4732* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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4734Version 2.3.6
4735
4736* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4737
4738 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4739 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4740 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4741 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4742 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4743 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4744
5a82c748 4745 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4746
4747* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4748
4749* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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4751Version 2.3.5
4752
4753* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4754
4755 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4756 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4757 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4758 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4759
5a82c748 4760 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4762Version 2.3.4
4763
4764* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4765 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4766
4767* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4768 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4769 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4770
4771* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4772 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4773
0325dd20 4774* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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4775 efficiently.
4776 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4777
4778* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4779 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4780 handling data.
4781
4782* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4783 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 4784 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4785
4786* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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4787 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4788
4789* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4790 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4791 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4792 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4793
4794* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4795 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4796 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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4797 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4798
4799* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
4800 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
4801 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
4802 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
4803 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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4805Version 2.3.3
4806
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4807* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
4808 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
4809
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4810* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
4811 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 4812
69be6aaf 4813* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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4814 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
4815
4816* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
4817 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4818
4819* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
4820 by Roland McGrath.
4821
c5af724c 4822* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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4823 and Ulrich Drepper.
4824
4825* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
4826 RFC 3484.
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4828Version 2.3.2
4829
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4830* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
4831 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
4832 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
4833 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
4834 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
4835 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
4836 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
4837 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
4838 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
4839
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4840* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
4841 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
4842 and are now also available on the Hurd.
4843
4844* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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4845
4846* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
4847 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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4849* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
4850 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
4851
52a16e58 4852* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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4854* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
4855 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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4856
4857* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
4858 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
4859 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
4860 of weak definition in ld.so.
4861
4862* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
4863 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
4864
4865* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
4866 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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4870* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
4871 charsets.
4872
4873* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
4874 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 4875
bb0ec5bd 4876* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 4877 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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4878
4879* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
4880 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 4881
bb0ec5bd 4882* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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4883 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
4884 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4885
4886* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
4887 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 4888
bb0ec5bd 4889* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
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4891
4892* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
4893 Unicode 3.2.
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4895* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
4896 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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4898* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
4899 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
4900 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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4901
4902* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 4903 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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4904
4905* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4906 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4907 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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4908
4909* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4910 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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4911
4912* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4913 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4914 and Ulrich Drepper.
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4915
4916* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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4918Version 2.2.6
4919
4920* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4921 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4922
4923* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4924 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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4926Version 2.2.5
4927
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4928* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4929 128-bit long double format.
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4931* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4932 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 4933
ad2e4f18 4934* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 4935
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4936* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4937
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4938* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4939 as well.
4940
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4941* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4942 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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4943
4944* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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4946Version 2.2.4
4947
2995f70e 4948* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 4949 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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4950
4951* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4952 support Unicode 3.1.
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4953
4954* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4955 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 4956
69d5f925 4957* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 4958
69d5f925 4959* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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4960 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4961 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4962
4963* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4964 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4965
4966* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4967 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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4968
4969* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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4971Version 2.2.3
4972
1746f2b0 4973* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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4974 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4975 in float, double, and long double format.
4976
f128331c 4977* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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4978 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4979 128-bit long double format.
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4981* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4982 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4983 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4984 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4985
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4986* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4987 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4988 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4989
4990* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4991 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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4992
4993* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4994 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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4995
4996* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4997 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4998 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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4999
5000* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5001 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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5002
5003* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5004 of functions for Linux/x86.
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5005
5006* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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5008Version 2.2.2
5009
464d97ec 5010* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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5011 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5012 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5013 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5014 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5015 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5016 other headers.
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5017
5018* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5019 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5020
5021* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5022 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5023 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5024 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5025
5026* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5027 locales. While
5028
5029 locale -a
5030
5031 only lists the names of the supported locales
5032
5033 locale -a --verbose
5034
5035 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5036 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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5038Version 2.2.1
5039
5040* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5041 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5042 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5043 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5044 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5045
5046 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5047
5048 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5049
5050 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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5051
5052* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5053 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5054 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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5055
5056* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5057 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5058
5059* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5060 changed from the default "C" locale.
5061
5062* The usual bug fixes.
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5064Version 2.2
5065
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5066* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5067 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5068 is in progress.
5069
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5070* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5071
793bd4d9 5072* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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5074 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5075 obviously requires a database library being available.
5076
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5077* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5078
abbffdf9 5079* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 5080
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5081* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5082 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5083
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5084* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5085
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5086* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5087 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5088 and Mark Kettenis.
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5089
5090 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5091 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5092 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 5093
a00c3ca9 5094 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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5095 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5096
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5097* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5098 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5099 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5100
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5101* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5102 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5103 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5104 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5105
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5106 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5107 structures for the wide character tables.
5108
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5109* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5110
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5111* The utmp daemon has been removed.
5112
5113* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5114
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5115* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5116 and Yutaka Niibe.
5117
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5118* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5119
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5120* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5121
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5122* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5123
5124* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5125
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5126* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5127
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5128* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5129 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5130 implemented for Linux.
5131
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5132* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5133 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5134 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5135 versions.
5136
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5137* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5138 Masahide Washizawa.
5139
8f3f1e09 5140* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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5142Version 2.1.3
5143
5144* bug fixes
5145
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5147Version 2.1.2
5148
5149* bug fixes
5150
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5152Version 2.1.1
5153
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5154* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5155
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5156* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5157
407d26b7 5158* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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5159
5160* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5161
407d26b7 5162* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 5163
407d26b7 5164* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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5165
5166* Update timezone data files.
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5168* lots of charmaps corrections
5169
5170* some new locale definitions and charmaps
5171
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5174
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5175* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5176 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5177 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5178 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5179 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5180 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5181
c84142e8 5182* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 5183 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 5184
1fb05e3d 5185* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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5186 symbol level.
5187
5188* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5189 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 5190
cbdee279 5191* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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5192
5193* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 5194 numbers.
377a515b 5195
cbdee279 5196* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 5197
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5198* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5199 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 5200
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5201* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5202 library.
5203
e61abf83 5204* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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5205 functions from ISO C 9X.
5206
5207* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5208 real valued functions.
e61abf83 5209
a5a0310d 5210* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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5212* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5213
5214* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 5215
440d13e2 5216* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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5218* Optimized string functions have been added.
5219
5220* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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5222* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5225 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5226
5227 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5228 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5229
0dee6738 5230 user system wall
48244d09 5231
0dee6738 5232 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 5233
0dee6738 5234 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 5235
0dee6738 5236 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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5238 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5239
5240 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5241
5242 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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5244 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5245 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 5246 horribly slow.
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5248 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5249 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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5251* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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5253* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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5254
5255* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5256 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5257
5258* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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5260* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5261 Bambrough.
5262
5263* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5264 latest draft standards.
5265
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5266* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5267
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5269~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 5270addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5271alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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5272argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5273argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5274argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5275argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5276argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5277argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5278argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5279argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5280argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5281argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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5282authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5283authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5284authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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5285backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5286backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5287backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5288cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
5289cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5290cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5291cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5292cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5293cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5294capget NEW: kernel
5295capset NEW: kernel
5296carg NEW: ISO C 9x
5297cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
5298cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
5299casin NEW: ISO C 9x
5300casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5301casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5302casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5303casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5304casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5305catan NEW: ISO C 9x
5306catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5307catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5308catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5309catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5310catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5312ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
5313ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5314ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5315ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5316ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5317ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5318cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
5319cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
5320cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
5321cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
5322cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5323cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5324clearerr_locked REMOVED
5325clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5326clog NEW: ISO C 9x
5327clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5328clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5329clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5330clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
5331clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
5332conj NEW: ISO C 9x
5333conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
5334conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
5335cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
5336cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
5337cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
5338cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
5339cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5340cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5341creal NEW: ISO C 9x
5342crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5343creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5344creat64 NEW: LFS
5345csin NEW: ISO C 9x
5346csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5347csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5348csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5349csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5350csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5351csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
5352csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5353csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5354ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
5355ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5356ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5357ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5358ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5359ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5360des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5361ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5362endutxent NEW: Unix98
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5363exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5364exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5365exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5366exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5367exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5368exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5369fattach NEW: STREAMS
5370fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5371fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
5372fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
5373fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
5374feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5375fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5376fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5377fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5378feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5379feof_locked REMOVED
5380feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5381ferror_locked REMOVED
5382fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5383fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5384fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5385fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5386feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5387fflush_locked REMOVED
5388ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
5389ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
5390fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
5391fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5392fileno_locked REMOVED
5393fma NEW: ISO C 9x
5394fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5395fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
5396fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
5397fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
5398fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
5399fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
5400fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
5401fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 5402fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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5403fopen64 NEW: LFS
5404fputc_locked REMOVED
5405fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5406fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5407freopen64 NEW: LFS
5408fseeko NEW: Unix98
5409fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
5410fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
5411fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5412fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
5413ftello NEW: Unix98
5414ftello64 NEW: LFS
5415ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5416ftw64 NEW: LFS
5417fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5418gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5419gamma_r REMOVED
5420gammaf_r REMOVED
5421gammal_r REMOVED
5422getchar_locked REMOVED
5423getdate NEW: Unix98
5424getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5425getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5426getmsg NEW: STREAMS
5427getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 5428getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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5429getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5430getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5431getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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5432getutxent NEW: Unix98
5433getutxid NEW: Unix98
5434getutxline NEW: Unix98
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5435glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5436globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5437gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5438gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5439grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 5440host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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5441iconv NEW: iconv
5442iconv_close NEW: iconv
5443iconv_open NEW: iconv
5444if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5445if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5446if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5447if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5448in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5449in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5450inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5451isastream NEW: STREAMS
5452iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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5453key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5454key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5455key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5456key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5457key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5458key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5459key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5460key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5461key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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5462llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5463llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5464llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5465llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5466llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5467llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5468log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5469log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5470log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5471lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5472lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5473lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5474lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5475lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5476lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5477lseek64 NEW: LFS
5478makecontext NEW: Unix98
5479mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5480mmap64 NEW: LFS
5481moncontrol REMOVED
5482modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5483nan NEW: ISO C 9x
5484nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5485nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5486nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5487nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5488nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5489netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5490netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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5491nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5492nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5493nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5494nftw NEW: Unix98
5495nftw64 NEW: LFS
5496open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 5497passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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5498pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
5499pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5500pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5501pread NEW: Unix98
5502pread64 NEW: LFS
5503printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5504printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5505profil_counter REMOVED
5506pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5507pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5508ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5509ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5510putc_locked REMOVED
5511putchar_locked REMOVED
5512putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5513putmsg NEW: STREAMS
5514putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 5515pututxline NEW: Unix98
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5516pwrite NEW: Unix98
5517pwrite64 NEW: LFS
5518readdir64 NEW: LFS
5519readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5520remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5521remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5522remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5523round NEW: ISO C 9x
5524roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5525roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5526rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5527scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5528scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5529scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5530scandir64 NEW: LFS
5531sendfile NEW: kernel
5532setcontext NEW: Unix98
5533setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 5534setutxent NEW: Unix98
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5535sighold NEW: Unix98
5536sigignore NEW: Unix98
5537sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5538sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5539sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5540sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5541sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5542sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5543sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5544sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5545statfs64 NEW: LFS
5546statvfs NEW: Unix98
5547statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5548strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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5549strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5550strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5551strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 5552svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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5553svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5554svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5555swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5556tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5557tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5558tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5559tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5560tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5561tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5562trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5563truncate64 NEW: LFS
5564truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5565truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5566umount2 NEW: kernel
5567unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 5568updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 5569user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5570utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5571versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 5572versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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5573waitid NEW: Unix98
5574wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5575wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5576wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5577wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5578wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5579wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5580wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5581wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5582wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5583wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5584write_profiling REMOVED
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5585xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5586xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5587xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5588xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5589xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5590xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5591xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5592xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5593xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5594xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5595xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5596xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5597xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5598xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 5599xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5600~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5602Version 2.0.6
5603
5604* more bug fixes
5605
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5606\f
5607Version 2.0.5
5608
5609* more bug fixes
5610
5611* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5612
5613* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5614
5615* rewrite of cbrt function
5616
5617* update of timezone data
5618\f
5619Version 2.0.4
5620
5621* more bug fixes
5622\f
5623Version 2.0.3
5624
5625* more bug fixes
c84142e8 5626\f
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5627Version 2.0.2
5628
5629* more bug fixes
5630
5631* add atoll function
5632
5633* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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5634
5635* fix math functions
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5636\f
5637Version 2.0.1
5638
5639* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5640
5641* dynamic loader preserves all registers
5642
5643* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5644 the ELF dynamic loader.
5645
5646* support for parallel builds is improved
5647\f
40a4b79f 5648Version 2.0
28f540f4 5649
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5650* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5651 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5652 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
5653
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5654* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5655 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5656 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5657 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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5658 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5659 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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5660 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5661 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5662 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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5663 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5664 files in the ELF format.
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5665
5666* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5667 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5668
5669* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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5670 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5671 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5672 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5673 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5674 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5675 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5676 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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5677 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5678 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5679 about dynamically linked binaries.
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5681* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5682 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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5683 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5684 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5685 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 5686
f7eac6eb 5687* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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5688 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5689 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5690 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5691 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5692
5693* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
f7eac6eb 5694
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5695* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5696 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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5697 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5698 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5699 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5700 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5701 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5702 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5703 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 5704
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5705* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5706 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5707 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5708
5709* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5710 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5711 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5712
5713* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5714 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5715 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5716 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5717
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5718* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5719 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5720 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5721
5722* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5723 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5724 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5725
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5726* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5727 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5728
f7eac6eb 5729* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 5730 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 5731 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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5732 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5733
5734* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5735 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5736 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 5737
71733723 5738* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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5739 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5740 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5741 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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5742 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5743 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 5744 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 5745 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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5746
5747* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5748 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5749 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5750 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5751 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5752 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5753 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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5754
5755* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5756 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5757 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5758 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5759 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5760 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5761
5762* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5763 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5764
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5765* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5766 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5767 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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5769* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5770
5771* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5772 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5773 their use is discouraged.
5774
5775* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5776 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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5778* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5779 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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5780
5781* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5782 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5783
5784* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5785 see <dirent.h>.
5786
5787* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5788 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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5789 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5790 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5791 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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5792
5793* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5794 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5795 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5796 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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5797
5798* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
5799 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
5800
5801* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
5802 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
5803 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
5804 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
5805 number generator.
5806
5807* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
5808 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
5809
5810* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
5811 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
5812
71733723 5813* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 5814 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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5815 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
5816 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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5818* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
5819
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5820* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
5821 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
5822 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
5823
5824* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
5825 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 5827* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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5828 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
5829 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
5830 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
5831
5832* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
5833 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
5834 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
5835 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
5836 programs already written to use it.)
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5837
5838* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
5839 constants.
5840
5841* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
5842 with 4.4 BSD.
5843
5844* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
5845 a given effective group ID.
5846
5847* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
5848 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
5849 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
5850 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
5851
5852* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 5853 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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5854 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
5855 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
5856 doing the same thing.
5857
5858* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
5859 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
5860
5861* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 5862 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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5863
5864* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
5865
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5866* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
5867 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
5868 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 5869 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 5870 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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5871
5872* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
5873 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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5874
5875* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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5876 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
5877 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
5878 function.
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5879
5880* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
5881
5882* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
5883 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
5884 strings.
5885
5886* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
5887 and writing the utmp file.
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5888
5889* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
5890 Thorsten Kukuk.
5891
5892* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
5893 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
5894 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
5895
5896* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
5897 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
5898
5899* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
5900 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5901 specification.
5902
5903* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5904 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5905 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5906 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5907
5908* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5909 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5910 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5911
5912* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5913 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5914 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5915 expression matcher.
5916
5917* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5918 functionality.
5919
5920* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5921 by Ulrich Drepper.
5922
5923* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5924
5925* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5926 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5927 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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5929Version 1.09
5930
5931* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5932
5933* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5934 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5935
5936* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5937 want to put themselves in the background.
5938
5939* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5940 run without an operating system.
5941
5942* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5943 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5944
5945* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5946 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5947
5948* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5949
5950* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5951 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5952 have YP (aka NIS).
5953
5954* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5955 conventions.
5956
5957* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5958 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5959\f
5960Version 1.08
5961
5962* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5963 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5964 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5965
5966* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5967 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5968
5969* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5970 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5971
5972* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5973
5974* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5975
5976* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5977 compatibility.
5978
5979* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5980 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5981 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5982
5983* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5984
5985* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5986 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5987 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5988
5989* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5990 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5991 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5992 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5993 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5994 on a block).
5995
5996* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5997 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5998 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5999 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6000 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6001 cross-compiler.
6002
6003* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6004 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6005\f
6006Version 1.07
6007
6008* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6009 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6010
6011* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6012 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6013 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6014
6015* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6016 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6017 address of the last character written.
6018
6019* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6020 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6021
6022* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6023 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6024
6025* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6026 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6027 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6028 you dereference this pointer.
6029
6030* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6031 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6032
6033* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6034 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6035 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6036 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6037
6038* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6039 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6040 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6041 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6042\f
6043Version 1.06
6044
6045* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6046 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6047 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6048 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 6049 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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6050
6051* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6052
6053* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6054
6055* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6056 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6057
6058* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6059 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6060
6061* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6062 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6063
6064* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6065 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6066 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6067 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6068 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6069
6070* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6071 to the error code in `errno'.
6072
6073* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6074 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6075 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6076 malloc'd string.
6077
6078* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6079 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6080 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6081
6082* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6083 uniquely-named temporary file.
6084\f
6085Version 1.05
6086
6087* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6088 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6089 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6090
6091* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6092 characters.
6093
6094* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6095 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6096
6097* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6098\f
6099Version 1.04
6100
6101* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6102 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6103 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6104 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6105
6106* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6107 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6108 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6109
6110* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6111 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6112
6113* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6114 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6115 made itself into a shared library.
6116
6117* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6118 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6119
6120* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6121 with limited length.
6122
6123* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6124
6125* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6126
6127* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6128
6129* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6130 function for traversing a directory tree.
6131
6132* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6133 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6134 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6135 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6136
6137* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6138 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6139
6140* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6141
6142* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6143 things to your strings.
6144
6145* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6146
6147* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6148 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6149 supporting those systems.
6150
6151* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6152 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6153 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6154 configuration files.
6155
6156* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6157 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6158
6159* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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6160 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6161 in <strings.h>.)
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6162
6163* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6164 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6165 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6166 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6167 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6168 required storage is not available.
6169
6170* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6171 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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6172
6173* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6174 latest files released from Berkeley.
6175\f
6176----------------------------------------------------------------------
6177Copyright information:
6178
5f72f980 6179Copyright (C) 1992-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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6180
6181 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
6182 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
6183 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
6184 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
6185
6186 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
6187 of this document, or of portions of it,
6188 under the above conditions, provided also that they
6189 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
6190\f
6191Local variables:
6192version-control: never
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