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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
688903eb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.29
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10Major new features:
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12 [Add new features here]
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14Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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16* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
17 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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19Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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21 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
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23Security related changes:
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25 [Add security related changes here]
26
27The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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29 [The release manager will add the list generated by
30 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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33Version 2.28
34
35Major new features:
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37* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
38 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
39 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
40 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
41 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
42 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
43 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
44 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
45 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
46 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
47 archive or binary locales.
48
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49* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
50 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
51 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
52 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
53 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
54 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
55 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
56 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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57 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
58 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
59 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
60 validated for i686.
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62* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
63 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
64 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
65 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
66 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
67 field) to indicate such support is required.
68
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69* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
70 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
71 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
72
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73* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
74 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
75
76 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
77 fMxaddfNx functions.
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79 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
80 fMxsubfNx functions.
81
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82 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
83 fMxmulfNx functions.
84
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85 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
86 fMxdivfNx functions.
87
e607a352 88* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 89 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 90 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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91 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
92 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 94* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 95 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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97* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
98 patches.
99
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100* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
101 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
102 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
103 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
104 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
105 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
106 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
107 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
108
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109* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
110 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
111 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
112 the fstatat64 function.
113
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114* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
115 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
116 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
117 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
118 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
119 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
120 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
121 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
122 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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124* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
125 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
126 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
127 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
128 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
129 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
130 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
131 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
132 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
133 results in a load failure now.
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135* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
136 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
137 <threads.h>:
138
139 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
140 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
141
142 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
143 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
144
145 - call_once for function call synchronization.
146
147 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
148 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
149
150 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
151
152 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
153
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154Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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156* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
157 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
158 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
159
160* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
161 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
162 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
163 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
164 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
165 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
166
167* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
168 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
169 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
170 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
171 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
172 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
173 (Bug #1190.)
174
175* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
176 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
177 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
178 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
179 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
180 further explanation.
181
182 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
183 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
184 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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186* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
187
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188* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
189 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
190 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
191
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192* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
193 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
194 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
195 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
196
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197* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
198 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
199 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
200 for this function instead.
201
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202* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
203 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
204 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
205
206* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
207 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
208 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
209 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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211* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
212 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
213 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
214 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
215 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
216
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217* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
218 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
219 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
220 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
221 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
222 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
223 such as libgcrypt.
224
225* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
226 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
227 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
228 enabled.
229
230* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
231 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
232 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
233
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234* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
235 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
236 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
237 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
238 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
239 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
240
241 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
242 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
243 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
244 behavior in a future release.
245
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246Changes to build and runtime requirements:
247
f2873d2d 248 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
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250Security related changes:
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252 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
253 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
254 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
255 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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257 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
258 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
259
260 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
261 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
262 Izbyshev.
263
264 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
265 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
266 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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268The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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270 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
271 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
272 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
273 when __WORDSIZE != 64
274 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
275 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
276 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
277 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
278 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
279 14651
280 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
281 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
282 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
283 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
284 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
285 conversion is given
286 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
287 date
288 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
289 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
290 scope with -O1 and higher
291 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
292 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
293 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
294 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
295 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
296 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
297 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
298 horrible machine code)
299 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
300 last constant.
301 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
302 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
303 symbols
304 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
305 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
306 defined
307 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
308 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
309 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
310 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
311 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
312 fpscr.c'
313 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
314 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
315 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
316 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
317 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
318 the base address
319 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
320 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
321 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
322 open_verify
323 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
324 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
325 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
326 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
327 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
328 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
329 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
330 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
331 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
332 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
333 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
334 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
335 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
336 dlopen
337 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
338 AT_SECURE=1
339 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
340 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
341 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
342 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
343 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
344 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
345 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
346 for Spanish with CLDR
347 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
348 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
349 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
350 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
351 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
352 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
353 es_BO
354 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
355 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
356 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
357 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
358 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
359 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
360 dlopen failures
361 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
362 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
363 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
364 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
365 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
366 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
367 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
368 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
369 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
370 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
371 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
372 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
373 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
374 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
375 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
376 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
377 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
378 makecontext
379 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
380 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
381 required
382 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
383 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
384 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
385 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
386 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
387 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
388 disabled
389 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
390 failure
391 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
392 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
393 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
394 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
395 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
396 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
397 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
398 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
399 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
400 and libc build with -Os)
401 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
402 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
403 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
404 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
405 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
406 that changes /etc/passwd
407 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
408 (CVE-2018-11237)
409 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
410 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
411 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
412 posix/regcomp.c
413 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
414 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
415 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
416 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
417 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
418 AT_SECURE
419 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
420 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
421 parser.c
422 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
423 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
424 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
425 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
426 directed rounding
427 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
428 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
429 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
430 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
431 lookup
432 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
433 interposition
434 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
435 DSO boundaries.
436 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
437 <linux/time.h>
438 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
439 checking
440 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
441 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
442 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
443 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
444 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
445 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
446 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
447 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
448 processors
449 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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452Version 2.27
453
454Major new features:
455
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456* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
457 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 458 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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459 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
460 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
461 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
462 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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463 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
464 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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ac817e08 466* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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468 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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470* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
471
4cf82d23 472* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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475 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
476 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
477 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
478 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
479 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
480 from a security and performance perspective.
481
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482* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
483 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
484 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
485 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
486
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489 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
490 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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491 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
492
a23aa5b7 493* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 494 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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495 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
496 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
497 _Float128.
498
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500 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
501 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 502
4bab0224 503* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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506 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
507 pkey_get.
508
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510
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511* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
512
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513* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
514 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
515 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
516
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518 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
519 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
520 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
521 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
522 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
523 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
524
525 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
526 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
527 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
528 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
529 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
530 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
531 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
532
533 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
534 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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536 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
537 respectively.
538
539 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
540 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
541 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
542 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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544 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
545 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
546 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
547
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549 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 550 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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553 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
554 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
555
556 - rv64imac lp64
557 - rv64imafdc lp64
558 - rv64imafdc lp64d
559
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561
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562* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
563 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 564 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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565 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
566 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
567 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
568 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
569 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
570 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
571 fix this.
572
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573* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
574 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
575 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
576
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577* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
578 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
579 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
580 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
581 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
582 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
583 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
584 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
585 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
586 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
587 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
588 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
589 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
590 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
591 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
592 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
593 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
594 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
595 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
596 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
597 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
598 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
599 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
600 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
601 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
602 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
603
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605 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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608 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
609 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
610 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
611 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
612 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
613 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
614
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616 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
617 exp10l for these functions instead.
618
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620 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
621 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
622
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624 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
625 ignored.
626
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627* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
628 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
629 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
630 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
631
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633 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
634
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635* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
636 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
637
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638* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
639 programs.
640
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641* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
642
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643* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
644 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
645 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
646 instead.
647
648 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
649 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
650 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
651 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
652 use, but predates the bits convention.
653
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655
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656* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
657 subdirectory.
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659Security related changes:
660
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661 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
662 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
663 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
664 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
665 script.)
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667 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
668 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
669 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
670 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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672 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
673 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
674 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
675 of service.
676
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678 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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679 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
680
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681 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
682 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
683 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
684 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
685
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686 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
687 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
688 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
689 Qualys.
690
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691 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
692 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
693 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
694 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
695 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
696
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697 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
698 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
699 current directory.
700
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702 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
703 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
704
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705 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
706 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
707 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
708
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709 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
710 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
711 small, instead of NULL.
712
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715 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
716 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
717 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
718 locale
719 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
720 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
721 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
722 cases
723 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
724 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
725 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
726 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
727 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
728 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
729 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
730 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
731 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
732 "Bangla"
733 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
734 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
735 width Latin characters
736 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
737 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
738 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
739 letters
740 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
741 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
742 (CVE-2009-5064)
743 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
744 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
745 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
746 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
747 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
748 if malloc succeeded
749 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
750 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
751 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
752 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
753 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
754 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
755 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
756 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
757 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
758 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
759 U+309A
760 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
761 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
762 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
763 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
764 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
765 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
766 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
767 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
768 for Nicaragua
769 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
770 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
771 are not found.
772 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
773 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
774 access
775 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
776 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
777 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
778 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
779 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
780 __regcall calling convention
781 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
782 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
783 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
784 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
785 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
786 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
787 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
788 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
789 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
790 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
791 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
792 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
793 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
794 locale
795 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
796 protector=all
797 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
798 wcwidth
799 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
800 consistency check failures
801 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
802 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
803 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
804 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
805 PIE
806 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
807 locales
808 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
809 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
810 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
811 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
812 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
813 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
814 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
815 on memory allocation failure
816 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
817 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
818 the suspect)
819 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
820 default (i386)
821 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
822 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
823 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
824 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
825 instead of EAI_NODATA
826 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
827 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
828 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
829 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
830 implementation
831 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
832 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
833 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
834 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
835 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
836 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
837 allocation in syscall loops)
838 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
839 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
840 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
841 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
842 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
843 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
844 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
845 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
846 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
847 occur with -O3
848 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
849 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
850 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
851 amounts)
852 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
853 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
854 niu_NZ
855 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
856 checks
857 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
858 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
859 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
860 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
861 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
862 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
863 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
864 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
865 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
866 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
867 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
868 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
869 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
870 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
871 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
872 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
873 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
874 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
875 parsing after OOM
876 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
877 object
878 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
879 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
880 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
881 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
882 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
883 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
884 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
885 ppc64le
886 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
887 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
888 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
889 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
890 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
891 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
892 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
893 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
894 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
895 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
896 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
897 math_force_eval
898 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
899 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
900 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
901 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
902 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
903 the svid compat wrapper
904 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
905 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
906 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
907 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
908 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
909 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
910 --verbose.
911 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
912 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
913 to 2.26
914 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
915 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
916 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
917 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
918 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
919 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
920 (CVE-2017-15804)
921 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
922 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
923 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
924 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
925 failure."
926 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
927 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
928 -m32
929 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
930 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
931 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
932 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
933 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
934 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
935 inside the ASCII printable range
936 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
937 -mlong-double-64
938 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
939 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
940 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
941 Internet
942 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
943 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
944 backslash
945 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
946 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
947 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
948 heaps in an arena
949 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
950 networking interface
951 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
952 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
953 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
954 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
955 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
956 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
957 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
958 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
959 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
960 order
961 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
962 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
963 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
964 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
965 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
966 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
967 same as for Croatian
968 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
969 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
970 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
971 for initial thread"
972 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
973 SC_SSIZE_MAX
974 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
975 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
976 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
977 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
978 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
979 (CVE-2017-1000408)
980 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
981 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
982 modified in case of success
983 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
984 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
985 success
986 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
987 stack-protector=all
988 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
989 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
990 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
991 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
992 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
993 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
994 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
995 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
996 adding it on top
997 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
998 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
999 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1000 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1001 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1002 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1003 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1004 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1005 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1006 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1007 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1008 elision and tunables
1009 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1010 "invalid" exception
1011 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1012 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1013 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1014 exception
1015 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1016 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1017 power4
1018 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1019 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1020 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1021 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1022 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1023 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1024 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1025 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1026 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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1029Version 2.26
1030
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1031Major new features:
1032
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1033* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1034 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1035 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1036 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1037 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1038 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1039 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1040
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1041* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1042 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 1043 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1044 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1045 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1046 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1047 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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1049* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1050 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1051 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 1052
2b2ccd0c 1053* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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1055 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1056 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1057 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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1059 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1060 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1061 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1062 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1063 object are still limited to six search domains.
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1065 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1066 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1067 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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1069* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1070 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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1072* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1073 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1074 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1075 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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1077* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1078 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1079 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1080 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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1082* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1083 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1084 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1085 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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1087* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1088 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1089 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 1090
2b2ccd0c 1091* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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1092 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1093 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1094 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 1095
2b2ccd0c 1096 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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1098 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1099 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1100 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1101
1102 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1103 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1104 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1105 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1106 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1107 interfaces should be used instead.
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1109Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1110
1111* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1112 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1113 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1114 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1115 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1116 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1117 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1118 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1119
1120* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1121 removed.
1122
1123* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 1124 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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1125 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1126 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1127
1128* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1129 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1130 default.
1131
1132 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1133 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1134 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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1135 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
1136 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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1138 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1139 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1140 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1141 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1142
1143* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1144 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1145 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1146 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1147
1148* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1149 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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1151* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1152 exported by accident.
1153
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1154* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1155 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1156 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1157
1158* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1159 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1160 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1161 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1162
1163* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1164
1165* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1166
1167* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1168 free instead.
1169
1170* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1171 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1172
1173* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1174 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1175
1176* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1177 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1178 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1179 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1180 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1181 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1182 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1183 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1184
1185* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1186 synced with the kernel:
1187
1188 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1189 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1190
1191 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1192 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1193 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1194
1195 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1196 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1197
1198Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1199
1200* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1201 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1202 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1203
7e368000 1204* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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1207 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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1209 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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1210 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1211 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1212 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 1213 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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1216
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1218 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1219
1220* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1221 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1222
1223* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1224 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1225 (CVE-2010-3192).
1226
1227* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1228 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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1230The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1232 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1233 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1234 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1235 fields
1236 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1237 (CVE-2010-3192)
1238 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1239 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1240 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1241 ld.bfd is available
1242 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1243 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1244 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1245 x86 and other generic code
1246 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1247 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1248 incorrect
1249 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1250 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1251 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1252 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1253 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1254 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1255 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1256 resolver
1257 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1258 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1259 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1260 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1261 chillu characters
1262 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1263 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1264 receiving data
1265 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1266 whitespace
1267 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1268 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1269 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
1270 for Peru
1271 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1272 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1273 failures consistently
1274 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1275 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1276 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1277 frame-pointer on i386
1278 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1279 register
1280 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1281 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1282 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1283 generic c code is used
1284 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1285 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1286 around 4000
1287 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1288 (CVE-2017-12133)
1289 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1290 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1291 with -lieee
1292 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1293 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1294 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1295 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1296 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1297 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1298 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1299 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1300 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1301 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1302 remove()
1303 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1304 checked for errors.
1305 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1306 new posix_spawn implementation
1307 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1308 leads to lower CPU frequency
1309 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1310 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1311 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1312 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1313 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1314 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1315 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1316 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1317 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1318 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1319 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1320 not support gethostbyname4_r
1321 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1322 switching
1323 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1324 arenas
1325 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1326 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1327 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1328 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1329 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1330 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1331 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1332 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1333 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1334 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1335 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1336 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1337 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1338 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1339 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1340 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1341 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1342 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1343 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1344 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1345 retry value
1346 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1347 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1348 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1349 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1350 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1351 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1352 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1353 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1354 [21537] libc:
1355 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1356 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1357 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1358 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1359 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1360 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1361 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1362 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1363 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1364 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1365 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1366 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1367 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1368 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1369 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1370 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1371 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1372 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1373 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1374 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1375 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1376 issue on x86-64
1377 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1378 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1379 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1380 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1381 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1382 construction
1383 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1384 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1385 between_2_3
1386 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1387 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1388 conditions
1389 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1390 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1391 Hindi Locale
1392 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1393 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1394 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1395 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1396 locale
1397 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1398 leading to relocation crash
1399 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1400 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1401 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1402 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1403 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1404 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1405 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1406 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1407 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1408 locale
1409 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1410 locale
1411 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1412 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1413 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1414 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1415 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1416 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1417 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1418 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1419 strings
1420 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1421 protector=all
1422 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1423 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1424 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1425 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1426 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1427 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1428 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1429 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1430 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1431 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1432 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1433 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1434 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1435 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1436 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1437 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1438 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1439 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1440 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1441 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1442 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1443 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1444 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1445 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1446 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1447 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1448 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1449 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1450 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1451 with unicode 9.0
1452 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1453 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1454 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1455 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1456 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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1459Version 2.25
1460
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1461* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1462 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1463 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1464 Library.
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1466* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1467 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1468 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1469 the GNU C Library.
1470
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1471* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1472 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1473 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1474 the GNU C Library.
1475
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1476* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1477 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1478 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1479 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1480 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1481 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1482 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1483 will not.
1484
1485 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1486 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1487 many years.
1488
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1489* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1490 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1491 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1492
1493 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1494 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1495 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1496 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1497 problem.
1498
ec94343f 1499* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1500 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1501 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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1503* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1504 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1505 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1506 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1507 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1508 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1509 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1510 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1511 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1512 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1513 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1514 WINT_WIDTH.
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1516* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1517
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1518 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1519
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1520 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1521 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1522 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 1523
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1524 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1525 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1526
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1527 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1528 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1529
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1530 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1531
29cb9293 1532 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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1534 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1535 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 1536
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1537 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1538
eb3c12c7 1539 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 1540 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 1541
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1542* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1543 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1544
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1545* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1546 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1547 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1548
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1549* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1550 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1551 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1552 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1553 effects of the memory clear).
1554
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1555* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1556 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1557 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1558 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1559
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1560* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1561 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1562 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1563 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1564 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1565 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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1567* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1568 have been added.
1569
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1570* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1571 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1572 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1573 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1574 as large as several megabytes.
1575
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1576* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1577 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1578 been removed.
1579
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1580* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1581 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1582 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1583 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1584 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1585 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1586 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1587
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1588* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1589 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1590 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1591 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1592
099191b1 1593* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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1594 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1595 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1596 Internet.
1597
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1598* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1599 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1600 They were already unimplemented.
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1602* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1603 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1604 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1605 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1606
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1607* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1608 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1609 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1610 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1611 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1612
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1613* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1614 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1615 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1616 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1617 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1618
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1619* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1620 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1621 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1622 did not reflect that.
1623
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1624* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1625 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1626 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1627 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1628 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1629 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1630 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1631 'gcc/config.gcc'.
1632
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1633* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1634 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1635 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1636 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1637
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1638* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1639 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1640 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1641 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1642
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1643* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1644 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1645 guarantees.
1646
1647* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1648 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1649 make state changes.
1650
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1651Security related changes:
1652
fc82b0a2 1653* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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1654 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1655 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1656 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 1657 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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1659* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1660 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1661 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1662 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1663 (CVE-2015-5180)
1664
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1665The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1666
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1667 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1668 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1669 protector-all
1670 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1671 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1672 before it started waiting
1673 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1674 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1675 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1676 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1677 wrong type
1678 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1679 library linked with pthread
1680 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1681 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1682 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1683 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1684 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1685 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1686 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1687 when it shouldnt
1688 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1689 not
1690 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1691 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1692 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1693 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1694 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1695 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1696 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1697 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1698 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1699 termination
1700 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1701 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1702 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1703 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1704 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1705 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1706 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1707 causes a segmentation fault
1708 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1709 linking
1710 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1711 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1712 uninitialized GOT
1713 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1714 versions
1715 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1716 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1717 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1718 is always true.
1719 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1720 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1721 modes
1722 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1723 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1724 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1725 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1726 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1727 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1728 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1729 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1730 libpthread.a
1731 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1732 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1733 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1734 _res_hconf
1735 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1736 information.
1737 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1738 penalty
1739 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1740 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1741 cause transition penalty
1742 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1743 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1744 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1745 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1746 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1747 mcount.oS)
1748 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1749 Checking
1750 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1751 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1752 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1753 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1754 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1755 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1756 multi-arch
1757 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1758 (RES_USEBSTRING)
1759 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1760 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1761 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1762 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1763 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1764 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1765 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1766 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1767 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1768 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1769 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1770 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1771 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1772 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1773 glibc
1774 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1775 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1776 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1777 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1778 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1779 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1780 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1781 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1782 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1783 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1784 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1785 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1786 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1787 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1788 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1789 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1790 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1791 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1792 RES_USE_INET6
1793 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1794 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1795 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1796 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1797 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1798 wrong condition
1799 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1800 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1801 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1802 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1803 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1804 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1805 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1806 clang
1807 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1808 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1809 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1810 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1811 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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1815* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1816 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1817 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1818 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1819 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1820 architectures.
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1822* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1823 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1824 been included in previous releases.
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1826* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1827 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1828
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1829* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1830 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1831 instead of “union wait”.
1832
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1833* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1834 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1835 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1836 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1837 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1838 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1839 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1840
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1841* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1842 API.
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1844* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1845 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1846 drop it.
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1848* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1849 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1850 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1851 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1852 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1853 extensions.
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1856
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1857* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1858 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1859 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1860
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1861* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1862 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1863 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1864 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
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1866* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1867 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1868 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1869
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1870* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1871 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1872 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1873
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1874* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1875 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1876 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1877 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
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1881 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1882 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1883 of MS-DOS.
1884 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1885 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1886 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1887 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1888 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1889 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1890 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1891 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1892 CLDR data
1893 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1894 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1895 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1896 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1897 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1898 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1899 romanisation
1900 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1901 and +/-
1902 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1903 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1904 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1905 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1906 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1907 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1908 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1909 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1910 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1911 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1912 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1913 all locales
1914 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1915 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1916 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1917 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1918 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1919 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1920 execute
1921 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1922 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1923 -Wsystem-headers
1924 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1925 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1926 Romanian locale data
1927 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1928 symbol
1929 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1930 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1931 language
1932 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1933 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1934 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1935 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1936 machine
1937 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1938 description
1939 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1940 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1941 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1942 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1943 when using RTLD_NEXT
1944 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1945 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1946 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1947 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1948 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1949 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1950 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1951 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1952 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1953 Excavator core
1954 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1955 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1956 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1957 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1958 double range
1959 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1960 part zero incorrect
1961 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1962 equality tests
1963 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1964 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1965 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1966 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1967 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1968 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1969 glibc-2.22
1970 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1971 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1972 'tst-numeric.c'
1973 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1974 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1975 low part
1976 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1977 result
1978 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1979 unaligned stack
1980 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1981 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1982 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1983 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1984 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1985 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1986 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1987 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1988 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1989 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1990 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1991 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1992 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1993 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1994 modes
1995 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1996 server addresses
1997 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1998 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1999 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2000 response to getaddrinfo
2001 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2002 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2003 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2004 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2005 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2006 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2007 sometimes incorrect
2008 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2009 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2010 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2011 record types
2012 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2013 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2014 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2015 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2016 (CVE-2016-3075)
2017 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2018 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2019 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2020 resolving symbols
2021 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2022 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2023 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2024 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2025 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2026 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2027 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2028 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2029 gethosts
2030 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2031 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2032 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2033 (CVE-2016-3706)
2034 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2035 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2036 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2037 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2038 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2039 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2040 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2041 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2042 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2043 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2044 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2045 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2046 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2047 executable
2048 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2049 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2050 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2051 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2052 XPG3
2053 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2054 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2055 (CVE-2016-4429)
2056 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2057 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2058 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2059 AS not supporting AVX512
2060 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2061 sNaN argument
2062 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2063 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2064 argument
2065 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2066 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2067 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2068 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2069 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2070 eax=0x80000001
2071 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2072 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2073 subnormals
2074 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2075 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2076 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2077 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2078 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2079 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2080 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2081 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2082 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2083 input
2084 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2085 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2086 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2087 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2088 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2089 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2090 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2091 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2092 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2093 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2094 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2095 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2096 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2097 double rounding
2098 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2099 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2100 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2101 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2102 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2103 (Only arm/linux)
2104 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2105 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2106 fallbacks
2107 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2108 "invalid" exceptions
2109 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2110 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2111 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2112 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2113 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2114 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2115 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2116 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2117 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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2121* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2122 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2123 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2124 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2125 89, 16061, and 18568.
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2127* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2128 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2129 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2130 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2131 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2132 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2133 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2134
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2135* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2136 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2137 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2138
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2139* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2140 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2141 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2142 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2143 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2144 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2145 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2146
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2147* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2148 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2149 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2150 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2151 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 2152 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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2153 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2154 Ericsson.)
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2156* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2157 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2158 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2159 independent of the GNU C Library.
2160
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2161* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2162 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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2164* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2165 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2166 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2167 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2168 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2169 Linux kernel.
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2171* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2172 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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2174* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2175 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2176 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2177 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2178 defining their own copy.
2179
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2180* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2181 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2182 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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2184Security related changes:
2185
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2186* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2187 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2188
2189* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2190 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2191 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2192 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2193 (CVE-2015-8777)
2194
2195* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2196 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2197
2198* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2199 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
2200
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2201* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2202 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 2203 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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2205* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2206 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2207 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2208 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2209 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2210 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2211 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2212 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2213 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2214 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2215 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2216 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2217 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2218
ad372e29 2219The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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2221 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
2222 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2223 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2224 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2225 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2226 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2227 use `mkstemp'
2228 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2229 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2230 overflow/underflow errors
2231 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2232 overflow/underflow
2233 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2234 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2235 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2236 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2237 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2238 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2239 are not contiguous
2240 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2241 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2242 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2243 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2244 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2245 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2246 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2247 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2248 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2249 all exceptions
2250 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2251 arguments
2252 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2253 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2254 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2255 should include
2256 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2257 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2258 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2259 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2260 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2261 GNU/Linux
2262 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2263 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2264 arguments
2265 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2266 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2267 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2268 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2269 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2270 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2271 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2272 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2273 rounding results
2274 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2275 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2276 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2277 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2278 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2279 fails
2280 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2281 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2282 block boundary
2283 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2284 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2285 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2286 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2287 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2288 4.7?
2289 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2290 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2291 (related to lock elision)
2292 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2293 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2294 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2295 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2296 (CVE-2015-8779)
2297 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2298 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2299 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2300 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2301 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2302 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2303 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2304 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2305 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2306 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2307 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2308 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2309 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2310 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2311 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2312 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2313 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2314 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2315 contains a vector instruction exception.
2316 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2317 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2318 locales
2319 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2320 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2321 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2322 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2323 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2324 missing break ?
2325 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2326 32bit processes
2327 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2328 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2329 infinity
2330 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2331 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2332 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2333 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2334 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2335 be forced unloaded
2336 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2337 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2338 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2339 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2340 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2341 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2342 statically too large
2343 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2344 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2345 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2346 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2347 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2348 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2349 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2350 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2351 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2352 FUTEX_SHARED
2353 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2354 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2355 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2356 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2357 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2358 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2359 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2360 opendir()
2361 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2362 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2363 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2364 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2365 signgam
2366 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2367 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2368 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2369 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2370 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2371 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2372 dependencies
2373 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2374 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2375 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2376 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2377 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2378 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2379 (CVE-2015-8776)
2380 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2381 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2382 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2383 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2384 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2385 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2386 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2387 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2388 contention
2389 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2390 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2391 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2392 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2393 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2394 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2395 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2396 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2397 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2398 rounding modes
2399 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2400 ILP32
2401 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2402 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2403 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2404 threshold
2405 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2406 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2407 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2408 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2409 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2410 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2411 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2412 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2413 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2414 pthread_setaffinity_np
2415 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2416 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2417 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2418 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2419 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2420 prelink
2421 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2422 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2423 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2424 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2425 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2426 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2427 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2428 bits/mathcalls.h
2429 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2430 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2431 for C99-based standards
2432 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2433 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2434 math-only
2435 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2436 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2437 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2438 disabled
2439 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2440 "inexact" exceptions
2441 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2442 arguments
2443 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2444 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2445 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2446 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2447 rules
2448 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2449 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2450 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2451 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2452 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2453 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2454 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2455 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2456 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2457 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2458 from 32bit
2459 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2460 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2461 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2462 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2463 subnormals
2464 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2465 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2466 error on 32-bit architectures
2467 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2468 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2469 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2470 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2471 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2472 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2473 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2474 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2475 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2476 -Os
2477 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2478 CPU's.
2479 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2480 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2481 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2482 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2483 architectures
2484 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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2486Version 2.22
2487
2488* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2489
3df5cd98 2490 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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2491 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2492 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2493 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2494 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2495 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2496 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2497 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2498 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2499 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2500 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2501 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2502 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2503 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2504 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2505 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2506 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2507 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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2508 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2509 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
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2511* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2512 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2513
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2514* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2515 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2516 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2517 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2518 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2519 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
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2521* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2522 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2523 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2524 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2525 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2526
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2527* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2528 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2529 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2530
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2531* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2532 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2533 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2534 17998.
2535
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2536* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2537 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2538 condition in some applications.
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2539
2540* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
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2541 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2542 pow, powf.
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2543 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2544 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
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2545 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2546 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 2547 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
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2548
2549* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2550 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2551 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2552 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
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2553
2554* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2555 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2556 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
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2557
2558* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2559 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
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2560
2561* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2562 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2563 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2564
a03ba363 2565 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
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2566 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2567 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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2569Version 2.21
2570
2571* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2572
042e1521 2573 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
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2574 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2575 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2576 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2577 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2578 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2579 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2580 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2581 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2582 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2583 17892.
2584
46d54873
FW
2585* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2586 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2587 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2588 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2589 intended.
042e1521
CD
2590
2591* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2592 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2593 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2594 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2595 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2596 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 2597
522e6ee3
CLT
2598* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2599
d3b00f46
AZ
2600* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2601 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 2602 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 2603
8d2c0a59
AZ
2604* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2605 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2606 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2607 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2608 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2609 effects being visible outside transactions.
2610
dc400d7b
RE
2611* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2612 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 2613
0f9dfe04
L
2614* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2615
a39208bd
CD
2616* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2617 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 2618 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
2619 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2620 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 2621
a5357b7c
JL
2622* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2623 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2624
e54db0ea
AM
2625* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2626 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2627 format.
11e3417a 2628
4863355a
JM
2629* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2630 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2631 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2632
a4ecc9eb
JM
2633* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2634 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2635
0d560bbf 2636* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
2637
2638* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2639 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2640 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2641 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
2642
2643* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2644 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
2645
2646* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2647 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2648 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2649 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2650 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2651 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2652 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2653 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2654 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2655 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2656 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2657 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2658 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2659
2660 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2661 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2662 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2663 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2664 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 2665\f
d5b396c1
AM
2666Version 2.20
2667
2668* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2669
6a9350c8
JM
2670 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2671 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2672 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2673 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2674 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2675 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2676 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2677 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2678 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2679 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2680 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2681 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2682 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2683 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2684 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 2685
95ee7fb1
SL
2686* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2687 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2688 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2689 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2690 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 2691 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
2692 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2693 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2694 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2695 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2696
0961f7e1
JL
2697* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2698 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2699 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2700 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2701 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 2702
f940b965
RE
2703* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2704
d0f5b3f8
JM
2705* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2706 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2707
d6fe5e58
JM
2708* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2709 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2710 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2711 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2712 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2713 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2714
464263cc
JM
2715* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2716 from ports.
c941736c
JM
2717
2718* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2719 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2720 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2721 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2722 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2723 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2724 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
2725
2726* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
2727
2728* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2729 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2730 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2731 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2732 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2733 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2734 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
2735
2736* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2737 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2738 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2739 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2740 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
2741
2742* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2743 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2744 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
2745
2746* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2747 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2748 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2749 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
2750
2751* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2752 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2753 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2754 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2755 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2756 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2757 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2758 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
2759
2760* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2761 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2762 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2763 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2764 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2765 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2766 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2767 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2768 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
2769
2770* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2771 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2772 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2773 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2774 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 2775 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
2776
2777* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2778 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2779 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2780 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
2781\f
2782Version 2.19
2783
2784* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2785
fd2f9486
JM
2786 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2787 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2788 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2789 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2790 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2791 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2792 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2793 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2794 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2795 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
2796 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2797 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2798 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2799 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2800 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
2801 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2802 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2803 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 2804
11520a57
CD
2805* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2806 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2807
2fe16229
CD
2808* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2809 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2810 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
2811 extension which uses __block.
2812
303e567a
SP
2813* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2814 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2815 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2816 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2817 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2818
141f3a77
SP
2819* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2820 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2821 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2822 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2823 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
2824
2825* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2826 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2827 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2828 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2829 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
2830
2831* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2832 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2833 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2834
ba0d798c
WN
2835* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2836 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2837 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2838 #15856, #15857).
2839
7cbcdb36
SP
2840* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2841 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2842
82bab04b 2843* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2844 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 2845
c5f840fd
MB
2846* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2847
3e181dda
CD
2848* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2849 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 2850
3e181dda 2851* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 2852
8a05c252
CL
2853* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2854
6055173a
JM
2855* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2856 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2857 for which the C library was built.
2858
b125d3e5
JM
2859* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2860 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2861 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2862 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2863 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2864 in the following circumstances:
2865
2866 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2867
2868 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2869 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2870
d4f66d37
JM
2871* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2872 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2873
3e181dda
CD
2874* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2875 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 2876
ffb89e53
AO
2877* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2878
5d29ccce
SP
2879* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2880 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2881
8b7d57cd 2882* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
2883
2884* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2885
fd712ef3 2886* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2887
c688b419
JM
2888* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2889 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2890 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2891 disable some of those declarations.
2892
7011c262 2893* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
2894 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2895 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
2896
2897* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2898 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
2899
2900* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2901 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2902 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2903 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2904 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2905 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2906 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2907 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2908 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2909 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2910 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2911 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2912 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
2913\f
2914Version 2.18
2915
2916* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2917
17db6e8d 2918 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
2919 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2920 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
2921 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2922 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2923 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2924 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2925 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2926 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2927 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2928 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2929 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2930 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2931 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
2932
2933* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2934 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2935 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2936 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2937 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2938 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 2939
5b535ac4
AS
2940* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2941 #15078).
2942
1cef1b19
AS
2943* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2944 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 2945
55e4107b
SP
2946* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2947 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2948 destructor calls to glibc.
2949
e5c74c63
SP
2950* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2951 output.
2952
2953* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2954 non-x86 architectures.
2955
e7521973
JM
2956* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2957
2958* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2959
2960* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2961 Richard Henderson.
2962
2963* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2964
2965* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2966 Richard Henderson.
2967
2968* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2969 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2970
8cfdb7e0
SP
2971* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2972
57267616
TS
2973* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2974 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 2975
c204ab28
SP
2976* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2977 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 2978
0748546f
PE
2979* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2980 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2981 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2982
61dd6208
SP
2983* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2984 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2985 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
2986
2987* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2988 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2989 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2990 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2991 mutexes.
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2992
2993* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2994 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2995
2996* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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2998Version 2.17
2999
3000* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3001
80ceeaee 3002 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
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3003 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3004 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3005 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3006 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3007 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3008 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3009 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3010 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3011 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3012 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3013 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3014 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3015 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3016 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 3017
95b4f1b6
SE
3018* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3019
14bc93a9
JL
3020* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3021 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 3022
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3023* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3024 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3025
7e2bd01f
MS
3026* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3027
08f43f9b
AK
3028* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3029 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3030 zEnterprise z196.
3031 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3032
84b3fd84
FW
3033* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3034 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3035 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3036
815e6fa3
GB
3037* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3038 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3039
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3040* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3041 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3042
7aab07e4 3043* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 3044 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 3045
15d0da8c
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3046* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3047 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3048
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3049* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3050 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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3051 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3052 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 3053
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3054* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3055 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3056
85429b1a 3057* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 3058 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
3059 default.
3060
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3061* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3062 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3063 information in --help and --version output.
3064
050af9c4
SP
3065* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3066 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3067 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3068
89a3ad0b
AO
3069* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3070 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3071 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3072 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3073 when the mode is enabled.
3074
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3075* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3076 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3077 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3078 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3079 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3080 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3081 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 3082
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3083* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3084 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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3086Version 2.16
3087
3088* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3089
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3090 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3091 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3092 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3093 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3094 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3095 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3096 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3097 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3098 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3099 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3100 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3101 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3102 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3103 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3104 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3105 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3106 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3107 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3108 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3109 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3110 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3111 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3112 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 3113
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3114* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3115 configuring glibc with:
3116 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3117 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3118 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3119
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3120* ISO C11 support:
3121
3122 + define static_assert
3123
3124 + do not declare gets
3125
3126 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3127
3128 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3129 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3130 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3131 implementation.
8d44e150 3132
74033a25 3133 + timespec_get added
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3134
3135 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 3136
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3137 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3138
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3139 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3140
9dc4e1fb 3141* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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3142
3143* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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3144
3145* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3146 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3147
3148* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3149 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
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3150
3151* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3152 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3153 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3154 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3155 existing applications.
ffb7875d 3156
21708942 3157* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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3158 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3159 before 2.6.
83678f76 3160
edb00e4d
RH
3161* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3162 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3163 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3164
83678f76 3165* New locales: mag_IN
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3166
3167* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3168 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3169 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3170 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3171 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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3172
3173* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3174
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3175* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3176 and Will Schmidt.
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3177
3178* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3179
3180* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3181 without a previously built glibc.
3182
3183* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3184 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3185
3186* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3187 now supported for ARM processors.
3188
3189* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3190 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3191 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3192
3193* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3194
3195* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3196 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3197 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3198 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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3199
3200* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3201 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3202 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3203 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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3204
3205* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3206 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3207 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3208 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3209 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3210
3211* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3212 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3213 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3214 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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e80fab37 3216Version 2.15
11988f8f 3217
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3218* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3219
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3220 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3221 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3222 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3223 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3224 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3225 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3226 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 3227
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3228* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3229 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3230
3231* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3232 and support for initgroups lookups.
3233 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3234
3235* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3236 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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3237
3238* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3239 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 3240
fc2ee42a
LD
3241* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3242 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 3243 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 3244
d42964a0 3245* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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3246 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3247
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3248* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3249 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
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3250 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3251
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3252* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3253 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3254
3255* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3256 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3257
3258* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3259 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3260
3261* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3262 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3263
3264* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3265 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3266
3267* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3268 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3269
3270* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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3271
3272* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3273 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 3274
f0b264f1
AZ
3275* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3276 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 3277
6b64057b 3278* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 3279\f
dded88cd 3280Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 3281
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3282* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3283
553149f6 3284 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3285 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3286 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3287 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3288 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3289 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3290 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3291 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3292 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3293 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 3294
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3295* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3296 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3297 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3298 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3299
3300 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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3301 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3302 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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3303 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3304
c6489db3 3305* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3306 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 3307
72d1dddb 3308* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 3309 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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3310
3311* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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3312
3313* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3314 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3315
3316* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3317 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3318 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3319 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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3321Version 2.13
3322
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3323* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3324
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3325 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
3326 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3327 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3328 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3329 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 3330
10b3bedc 3331* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 3332
ac2b484c 3333* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 3334
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3335* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3336 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3337 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4828935d 3338\f
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3339Version 2.12
3340
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3341* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3342
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3343 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3344 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3345 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3346 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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3347 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3348 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3349 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3350 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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3351
3352* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 3353
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3354* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3355
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3356* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3357
3358* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3359 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3360 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3361
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3362* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
3363 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3364 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3365 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3366 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3367
d36b9613 3368* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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3369\f
3370Version 2.11
3371
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3372* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3373
3374 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3375 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3376 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3377 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3378 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3379 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3380
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3381* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3382 mkostemps64
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3383 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3384
24ab9c76 3385* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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3386 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3387
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3388* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3389 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3390
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3391* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3392
0122f28e 3393* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 3394 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3395 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3397
9d36a6c4 3398 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3399 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3400
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3401* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3402 strstr, strcasestr.
3403 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3404
3405* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3406 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3407
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3408* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3409 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3410
3411* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3412 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3413
3414* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3415 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3416 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3417 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3418 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3419 necessity is every process again.
3420 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3421
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3423 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3424
3425* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3426 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3427
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3429 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3430 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3431
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3435
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3437
3438 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3439 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3440 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3441 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3442 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3443
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3446
425ce2ed 3447* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3448 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3449
1fdd89a7 3450* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3451 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3454 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 3456* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3457 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3460 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3461
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3462* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3463 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3464
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3465* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3466 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3467
3468* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3469 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3470 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3471
735be400 3472* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
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84aa52d7 3474* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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3476
3477* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3478 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3480
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3481* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3482 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3483
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3485 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3486 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3487 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3488 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3489 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3492
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3494
3495 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3496 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3497 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3498 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3499 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3500
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3503
3504* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3505 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3507* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3508 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3510* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3511 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3512 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3513
3514* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3515 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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3519* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 3520 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3522* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3523 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3524 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3525 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3526
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3527* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3528 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3531 Sinhala)
48b22986 3532 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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3534* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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3537
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3539
3540 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3541 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3542 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3543 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3544 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3545 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3546 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3547
e038616f 3548* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 3549
77751669 3550* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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3552* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3553 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3554
3555* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3556
3557* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3558 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3559
3560* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3561 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3562
3563* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3564 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3565 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3566
3567* Faster memset for x86-64.
3568 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3569
3570* Faster memcpy on x86.
3571 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3572
3573* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3574 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3576* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 3577 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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3580
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3582
3583 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3584 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3585 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3586 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3587 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3588
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3589* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3590 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3591
3592* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3593
3594* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3595 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3596 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3597
3598* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3599 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3600
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3602 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3603
3604* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3605
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3606* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3607 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3608
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3609* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3610 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3611
3612* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3613 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3614
3615* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3616
3617* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3618 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3620* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3621 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3622 yo_NG.
3623
3624+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3625 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3630
3631 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3632 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3633 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3634 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3635 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3636 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3637 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3638 4702, 4858
3639
bce20b9a 3640* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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3643
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3647
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3648* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3649
3650 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3651 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3652 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3653 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3654 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3655 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3656 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3657 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3658 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3659
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3661 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3662 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3664* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3665 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3666
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3669* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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3671* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3672 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3673 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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3676
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3678 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3679 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3680 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3681
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3682* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3683 Ulrich Drepper.
3684
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3685* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3686
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3687* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3688 Ulrich Drepper.
3689
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3690* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3691
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3692* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3693 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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3696
3697* More overflow detection functions.
3698
3699* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3700 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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3702 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3703 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3704 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3705 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3706 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3707 by Masahide Washizawa.
3708
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3710 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3712* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3713 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3714 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3715 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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3717* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3718 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3719
3720* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3721
3722* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3723 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3724 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3725
3726* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3727 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3728
3729* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3730 for compatibility with some other systems.
3731
3732* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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3735
3736* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3737
3738 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3739 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3740 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3741 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3742 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3743 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3744
3745 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3746
3747* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3748
3749* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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3752
3753* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3754
3755 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3756 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3757 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3758 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3759
3760 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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3763
3764* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3765 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3767* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3768 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3769 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3770
3771* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3772 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3773
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3775 efficiently.
3776 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3777
3778* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3779 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3780 handling data.
3781
3782* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3783 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
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3786* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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3788
3789* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3790 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3791 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3792 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3793
3794* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3795 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3796 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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3797 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3798
3799* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3800 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3801 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3802 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3803 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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3806
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3808 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3809
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3810* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3811 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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3815
3816* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3817 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3819* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3820 by Roland McGrath.
3821
c5af724c 3822* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3824
3825* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3826 RFC 3484.
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3829
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3830* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3831 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3832 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3833 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3834 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3835 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3836 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3837 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3838 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3839
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3840* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3841 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3842 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3843
3844* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3845
3846* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3847 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 3848
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3849* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3850 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3851
52a16e58 3852* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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3854* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3855 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3856
3857* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3858 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3859 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3860 of weak definition in ld.so.
3861
3862* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3863 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3864
3865* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3866 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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37fb1084 3869
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3870* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3871 charsets.
3872
3873* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3874 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3875
bb0ec5bd 3876* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3877 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3878
3879* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3880 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3881
bb0ec5bd 3882* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3883 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3884 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3885
3886* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3887 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3888
bb0ec5bd 3889* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3890 implementation of regex.
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3891
3892* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3893 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 3894
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3895* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3896 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 3897
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3898* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3899 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3900 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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3901
3902* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 3903 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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3904
3905* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3906 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3907 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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3908
3909* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3910 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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3911
3912* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3913 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3914 and Ulrich Drepper.
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3915
3916* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
3917\f
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3918Version 2.2.6
3919
3920* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3921 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3922
3923* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3924 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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3926Version 2.2.5
3927
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3928* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3929 128-bit long double format.
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3931* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3932 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 3933
ad2e4f18 3934* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 3935
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3936* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3937
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3938* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3939 as well.
3940
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3941* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3942 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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3943
3944* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
7d0c5823 3945\f
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3946Version 2.2.4
3947
2995f70e 3948* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 3949 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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3950
3951* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3952 support Unicode 3.1.
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3953
3954* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3955 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 3956
69d5f925 3957* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 3958
69d5f925 3959* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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3960 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3961 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3962
3963* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3964 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3965
3966* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3967 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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3968
3969* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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3971Version 2.2.3
3972
1746f2b0 3973* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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3974 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3975 in float, double, and long double format.
3976
f128331c 3977* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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3978 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3979 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 3980
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3981* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3982 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3983 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3984 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
3985
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3986* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3987 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3988 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3989
3990* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3991 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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3992
3993* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3994 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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3995
3996* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3997 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3998 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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3999
4000* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4001 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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4002
4003* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4004 of functions for Linux/x86.
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4005
4006* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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4008Version 2.2.2
4009
464d97ec 4010* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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4011 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4012 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4013 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4014 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4015 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4016 other headers.
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4017
4018* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4019 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4020
4021* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4022 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4023 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4024 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4025
4026* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4027 locales. While
4028
4029 locale -a
4030
4031 only lists the names of the supported locales
4032
4033 locale -a --verbose
4034
4035 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4036 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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4038Version 2.2.1
4039
4040* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4041 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4042 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4043 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4044 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4045
4046 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4047
4048 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4049
4050 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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4051
4052* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4053 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4054 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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4055
4056* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4057 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4058
4059* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4060 changed from the default "C" locale.
4061
4062* The usual bug fixes.
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4064Version 2.2
4065
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4066* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4067 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4068 is in progress.
4069
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4070* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4071
793bd4d9 4072* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 4073
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4074 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4075 obviously requires a database library being available.
4076
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4077* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4078
abbffdf9 4079* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 4080
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4081* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4082 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4083
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4084* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4085
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4086* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4087 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4088 and Mark Kettenis.
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4089
4090 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4091 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4092 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 4093
a00c3ca9 4094 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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4095 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4096
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4097* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4098 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4099 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4100
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4101* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4102 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4103 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4104 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4105
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4106 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4107 structures for the wide character tables.
4108
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4109* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4110
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4111* The utmp daemon has been removed.
4112
4113* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4114
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4115* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4116 and Yutaka Niibe.
4117
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4118* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4119
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4120* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4121
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4122* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4123
4124* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4125
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4126* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4127
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4128* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4129 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4130 implemented for Linux.
4131
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4132* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4133 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4134 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4135 versions.
4136
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4137* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4138 Masahide Washizawa.
4139
8f3f1e09 4140* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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4141\f
4142Version 2.1.3
4143
4144* bug fixes
4145
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4146\f
4147Version 2.1.2
4148
4149* bug fixes
4150
28f540f4 4151\f
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4152Version 2.1.1
4153
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4154* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4155
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4156* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4157
407d26b7 4158* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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4159
4160* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4161
407d26b7 4162* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 4163
407d26b7 4164* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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4165
4166* Update timezone data files.
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4168* lots of charmaps corrections
4169
4170* some new locale definitions and charmaps
4171
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4173Version 2.1
4174
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4175* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4176 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4177 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4178 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4179 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4180 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4181
c84142e8 4182* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 4183 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 4184
1fb05e3d 4185* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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4186 symbol level.
4187
4188* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4189 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 4190
cbdee279 4191* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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4192
4193* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 4194 numbers.
377a515b 4195
cbdee279 4196* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 4197
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4198* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4199 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 4200
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4201* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4202 library.
4203
e61abf83 4204* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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4205 functions from ISO C 9X.
4206
4207* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4208 real valued functions.
e61abf83 4209
a5a0310d 4210* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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4212* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4213
4214* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 4215
440d13e2 4216* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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4217
4218* Optimized string functions have been added.
4219
4220* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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4221
4222* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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4224* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4225 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4226
4227 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4228 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4229
0dee6738 4230 user system wall
48244d09 4231
0dee6738 4232 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 4233
0dee6738 4234 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 4235
0dee6738 4236 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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4238 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4239
4240 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4241
4242 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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4245 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 4246 horribly slow.
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4248 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4249 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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4250
4251* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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4252
4253* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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4254
4255* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4256 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4257
4258* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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4260* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4261 Bambrough.
4262
4263* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4264 latest draft standards.
4265
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4266* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
4267
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4268* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
4269~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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4272argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4273argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4274argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4275argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4276argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4277argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4278argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4279argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4280argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4281argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4282authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
4283authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4284authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4285backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4286backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4287backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4288cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4289cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4290cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4291cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4292cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4293cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4294capget NEW: kernel
4295capset NEW: kernel
4296carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4297cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4298cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4299casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4300casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4301casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4302casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4303casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4304casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4305catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4306catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4307catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4308catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4309catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4310catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 4311cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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4312ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
4313ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4314ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4315ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4316ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4317ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4318cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4319cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4320cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4321cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4322cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4323cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4324clearerr_locked REMOVED
4325clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4326clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4327clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4328clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4329clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4330clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4331clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4332conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4333conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4334conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4335cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4336cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4337cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4338cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4339cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4340cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4341creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4342crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4343creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4344creat64 NEW: LFS
4345csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4346csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4347csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4348csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4349csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4350csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4351csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4352csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4353csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4354ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4355ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4356ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4357ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4358ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4359ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4360des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4361ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4362endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4363exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4364exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4365exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4366exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4367exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4368exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4369fattach NEW: STREAMS
4370fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4371fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4372fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4373fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4374feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4375fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4376fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4377fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4378feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4379feof_locked REMOVED
4380feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4381ferror_locked REMOVED
4382fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4383fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4384fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4385fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4386feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4387fflush_locked REMOVED
4388ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4389ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4390fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4391fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4392fileno_locked REMOVED
4393fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4394fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4395fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4396fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4397fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4398fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4399fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4400fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4401fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4402fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4404fputc_locked REMOVED
4405fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4406fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4407freopen64 NEW: LFS
4408fseeko NEW: Unix98
4409fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4410fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4411fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4412fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4413ftello NEW: Unix98
4414ftello64 NEW: LFS
4415ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4416ftw64 NEW: LFS
4417fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4418gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4419gamma_r REMOVED
4420gammaf_r REMOVED
4421gammal_r REMOVED
4422getchar_locked REMOVED
4423getdate NEW: Unix98
4424getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4425getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4426getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4427getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 4428getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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4430getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4431getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4432getutxent NEW: Unix98
4433getutxid NEW: Unix98
4434getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4436globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4437gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4438gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4439grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4440host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4441iconv NEW: iconv
4442iconv_close NEW: iconv
4443iconv_open NEW: iconv
4444if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4445if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4446if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4447if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4448in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4449in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4450inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4451isastream NEW: STREAMS
4452iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4453key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4454key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4455key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4456key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4457key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4458key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4459key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4460key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4461key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4462llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4463llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4464llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4465llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4466llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4467llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4468log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4469log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4470log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4471lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4472lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4473lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4474lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4475lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4476lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4477lseek64 NEW: LFS
4478makecontext NEW: Unix98
4479mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4480mmap64 NEW: LFS
4481moncontrol REMOVED
4482modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4483nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4484nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4485nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4486nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4487nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4488nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4490netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4492nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4493nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4495nftw64 NEW: LFS
4496open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4497passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4498pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4499pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4500pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4501pread NEW: Unix98
4502pread64 NEW: LFS
4503printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4504printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4505profil_counter REMOVED
4506pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4507pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4508ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4509ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4510putc_locked REMOVED
4511putchar_locked REMOVED
4512putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4513putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4514putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4515pututxline NEW: Unix98
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4517pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4518readdir64 NEW: LFS
4519readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4520remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4521remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4522remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4523round NEW: ISO C 9x
4524roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4525roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4526rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4527scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4528scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4529scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4530scandir64 NEW: LFS
4531sendfile NEW: kernel
4532setcontext NEW: Unix98
4533setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 4534setutxent NEW: Unix98
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4536sigignore NEW: Unix98
4537sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4538sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4539sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4540sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4541sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4542sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4543sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4544sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4545statfs64 NEW: LFS
4546statvfs NEW: Unix98
4547statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4548strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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4550strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4551strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 4552svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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4553svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4554svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4555swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4556tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4557tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4558tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4559tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4560tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4561tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4562trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4563truncate64 NEW: LFS
4564truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4565truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4566umount2 NEW: kernel
4567unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 4568updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 4569user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4570utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4571versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 4572versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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4573waitid NEW: Unix98
4574wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4575wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4576wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4577wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4578wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4579wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4580wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4581wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4582wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4583wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4584write_profiling REMOVED
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4586xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4587xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4588xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4589xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4590xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4591xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4592xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4593xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4594xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4595xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4596xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4597xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4598xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 4599xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4600~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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4602Version 2.0.6
4603
4604* more bug fixes
4605
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4606\f
4607Version 2.0.5
4608
4609* more bug fixes
4610
4611* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4612
4613* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4614
4615* rewrite of cbrt function
4616
4617* update of timezone data
4618\f
4619Version 2.0.4
4620
4621* more bug fixes
4622\f
4623Version 2.0.3
4624
4625* more bug fixes
c84142e8 4626\f
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4627Version 2.0.2
4628
4629* more bug fixes
4630
4631* add atoll function
4632
4633* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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4634
4635* fix math functions
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4636\f
4637Version 2.0.1
4638
4639* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4640
4641* dynamic loader preserves all registers
4642
4643* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4644 the ELF dynamic loader.
4645
4646* support for parallel builds is improved
4647\f
40a4b79f 4648Version 2.0
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4650* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4651 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4652 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4653
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4654* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4655 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4656 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4657 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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4658 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4659 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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4660 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4661 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4662 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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4663 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4664 files in the ELF format.
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4665
4666* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4667 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4668
4669* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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4670 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4671 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4672 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4673 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4674 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4675 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4676 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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4677 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4678 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4679 about dynamically linked binaries.
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4681* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4682 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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4683 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4684 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4685 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 4686
f7eac6eb 4687* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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4688 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4689 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4690 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4691 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4692
4693* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
f7eac6eb 4694
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4695* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4696 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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4697 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4698 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4699 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4700 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4701 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4702 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4703 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 4704
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4705* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4706 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4707 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4708
4709* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4710 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4711 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4712
4713* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4714 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4715 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4716 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4717
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4718* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4719 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4720 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4721
4722* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4723 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4724 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4725
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4726* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4727 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4728
f7eac6eb 4729* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 4730 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 4731 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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4732 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4733
4734* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4735 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4736 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 4737
71733723 4738* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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4739 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4740 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4741 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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4742 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4743 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 4744 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 4745 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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4746
4747* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4748 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4749 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4750 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4751 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4752 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4753 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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4754
4755* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4756 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4757 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4758 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4759 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4760 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4761
4762* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4763 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4764
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4765* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4766 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4767 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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4769* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4770
4771* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4772 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4773 their use is discouraged.
4774
4775* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4776 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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4778* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4779 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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4780
4781* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4782 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4783
4784* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4785 see <dirent.h>.
4786
4787* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4788 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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4789 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4790 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4791 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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4792
4793* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4794 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4795 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4796 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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4797
4798* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4799 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4800
4801* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4802 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4803 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4804 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4805 number generator.
4806
4807* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4808 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4809
4810* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4811 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4812
71733723 4813* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 4814 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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4815 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
4816 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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4818* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4819
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4820* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4821 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4822 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4823
4824* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4825 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 4827* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4828 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4829 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4830 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4831
4832* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4833 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4834 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4835 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4836 programs already written to use it.)
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4837
4838* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4839 constants.
4840
4841* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4842 with 4.4 BSD.
4843
4844* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4845 a given effective group ID.
4846
4847* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4848 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4849 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4850 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4851
4852* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4853 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4854 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4855 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4856 doing the same thing.
4857
4858* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4859 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4860
4861* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4862 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4863
4864* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4865
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4866* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4867 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4868 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4869 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4870 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4871
4872* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4873 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4874
4875* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4876 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4877 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4878 function.
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4879
4880* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4881
4882* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4883 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4884 strings.
4885
4886* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4887 and writing the utmp file.
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4888
4889* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4890 Thorsten Kukuk.
4891
4892* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4893 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4894 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4895
4896* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4897 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4898
4899* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4900 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4901 specification.
4902
4903* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4904 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4905 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4906 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4907
4908* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4909 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4910 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4911
4912* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4913 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4914 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4915 expression matcher.
4916
4917* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4918 functionality.
4919
4920* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4921 by Ulrich Drepper.
4922
4923* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4924
4925* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4926 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4927 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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4929Version 1.09
4930
4931* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4932
4933* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4934 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4935
4936* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4937 want to put themselves in the background.
4938
4939* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4940 run without an operating system.
4941
4942* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4943 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4944
4945* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4946 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4947
4948* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4949
4950* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4951 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4952 have YP (aka NIS).
4953
4954* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4955 conventions.
4956
4957* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4958 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4959\f
4960Version 1.08
4961
4962* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4963 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4964 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4965
4966* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4967 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4968
4969* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4970 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4971
4972* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4973
4974* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4975
4976* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4977 compatibility.
4978
4979* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4980 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4981 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4982
4983* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4984
4985* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4986 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4987 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4988
4989* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4990 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4991 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4992 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4993 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4994 on a block).
4995
4996* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4997 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4998 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4999 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5000 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5001 cross-compiler.
5002
5003* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5004 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5005\f
5006Version 1.07
5007
5008* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5009 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5010
5011* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5012 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5013 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5014
5015* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5016 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5017 address of the last character written.
5018
5019* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5020 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5021
5022* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5023 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5024
5025* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5026 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5027 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5028 you dereference this pointer.
5029
5030* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5031 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5032
5033* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5034 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5035 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5036 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5037
5038* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5039 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5040 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5041 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5042\f
5043Version 1.06
5044
5045* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5046 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5047 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5048 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 5049 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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5051* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5052
5053* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5054
5055* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5056 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5057
5058* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5059 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5060
5061* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5062 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5063
5064* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5065 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5066 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5067 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5068 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5069
5070* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5071 to the error code in `errno'.
5072
5073* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5074 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5075 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5076 malloc'd string.
5077
5078* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5079 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5080 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5081
5082* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5083 uniquely-named temporary file.
5084\f
5085Version 1.05
5086
5087* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5088 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5089 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5090
5091* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5092 characters.
5093
5094* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5095 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5096
5097* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5098\f
5099Version 1.04
5100
5101* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5102 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5103 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5104 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5105
5106* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5107 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5108 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5109
5110* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5111 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5112
5113* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5114 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5115 made itself into a shared library.
5116
5117* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5118 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5119
5120* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5121 with limited length.
5122
5123* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5124
5125* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5126
5127* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5128
5129* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5130 function for traversing a directory tree.
5131
5132* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5133 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5134 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5135 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5136
5137* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5138 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5139
5140* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5141
5142* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5143 things to your strings.
5144
5145* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5146
5147* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5148 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5149 supporting those systems.
5150
5151* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5152 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5153 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5154 configuration files.
5155
5156* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5157 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5158
5159* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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5160 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
5161 in <strings.h>.)
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5162
5163* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5164 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5165 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5166 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5167 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5168 required storage is not available.
5169
5170* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5171 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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5172
5173* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5174 latest files released from Berkeley.
5175\f
5176----------------------------------------------------------------------
5177Copyright information:
5178
09533208 5179Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5180
5181 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5182 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5183 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5184 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5185
5186 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5187 of this document, or of portions of it,
5188 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5189 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
5190\f
5191Local variables:
5192version-control: never
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