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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
581c785b 2Copyright (C) 1992-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.35
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10Major new features:
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12* Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
13 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
14 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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16* Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
17 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
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19* Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
20 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
21 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
22 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
23 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
24 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
25 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
26 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
27 glibc, and must be installed.
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29* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
30 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
31 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
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33 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
34 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
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36 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
37 fMxfmafNx functions.
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39* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
40 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
41 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
42 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
43 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
44 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
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46* <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
47 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
48 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
49 M_SQRT1_2f.
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51* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
52 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
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54* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
55 macro in <tgmath.h>.
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57* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
58
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59* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
60 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
61 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
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63* A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
64 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
65 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
66 object dependency cases.
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68* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
69 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
70 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
71 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
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73* ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
74 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
75 return value is only used for its boolean status.
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77* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
78 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
79 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
80 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
81 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
82 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
83 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
84 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
85 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
86 Restartable Sequences.
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88* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
89 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
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91* All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
92 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
93 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
94 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
95 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
96 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
97 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
98 configuration.
99
5f6d8d97 100* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
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101 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
102 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
103 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
104 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
105 huge pages.
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107* The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
108 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
109
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110* The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
111 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
112 address.
113
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114* Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
115 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
116 ABI is supported:
117
118 - or1k-linux-gnu
119
120 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
121 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
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123* A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
124 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
125 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
126 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
127 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
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129Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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131* On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
132 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
133 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
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135* The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
136 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
137
138 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
139 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
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141 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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143* Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
144
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145* The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
146 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
147 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
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149* The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
150 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
151 catching coredumps and backtraces.
152
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153Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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155 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
156
157Security related changes:
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159 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
160 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
161 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
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163 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
164 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
165
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166The following bugs are resolved with this release:
167
168 [The release manager will add the list generated by
169 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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172Version 2.34
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174Major new features:
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176* In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
177 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
178 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
179 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
180 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
181 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
182 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
183 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
184 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
185 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
186 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
187 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
188 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
189 potentially exposing application bugs.
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191* When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
192 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
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193 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
194 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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196* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
197 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
57fb02b2 198 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
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199 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
200 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
201 Arm SVE.
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203* The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
204 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
205 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
206
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207* On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
208 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
209 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
210 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
211
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212* The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
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214* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
215 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
216 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
217 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
218 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
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220* On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
221 --disable-scv configure option.
222
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223* Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
224 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
225 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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226 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
227 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
228 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
229 version of 5.1.
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231* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
232 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
233 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
234 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
235 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
236 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
237 that directory.
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239* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
240 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
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242* The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
243 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
244 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
245 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
246 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
247 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
248 is currently a GNU extension.
249
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250* On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
251 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
252
60744950 253* The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
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254 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
255 although it is also present in other systems.
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257* The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
258 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
259 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
260 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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262* When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
263 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
264 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
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266* The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
267 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
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269Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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271* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
272 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
273 instead.
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275* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
276 programs should use the equivalent standard function
277 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
278
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279* The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
280 programs should use the equivalent standard function
281 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
282
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283* The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
284 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
285
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286* The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
287
288* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
289 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
290 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
291 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
292 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
293 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
294 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
295 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
296 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
297 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
298 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
299
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300* Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
301 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
302 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
303 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
304 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
305 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
306 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
307 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
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309* The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
310 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
cfdaa29f 311 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
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312 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
313 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
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314 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
315 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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317* Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
318 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
319 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
320 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
321 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
322 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
323 upgrade or downgrade process.
324
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325* The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
326 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
327 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
328
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329* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
330 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
331 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
332 no longer have any effect on malloc.
333
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334* Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
335 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
336 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
337 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
338 this functionality back.
339
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340* The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
341 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
342 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
343 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
344
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345* The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
346 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
347 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
348 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
349 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
350 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
351 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
352 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
353 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
354
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355Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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357* On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
358 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
359 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
360 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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362Security related changes:
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364 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
365 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
366 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
367 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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369 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
370 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
371 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
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373 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
374 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
375 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
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377The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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379 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
380 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
381 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
382 given integer (closefrom)
383 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
384 name containing multi-byte character(s)
385 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
386 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
387 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
388 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
389 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
390 random thread
391 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
392 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
393 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
394 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
395 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
396 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
397 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
398 manual is incorrect
399 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
400 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
401 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
402 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
403 pthread_create and dlopen
404 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
405 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
406 when non-root user changes priority
407 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
408 dlopen
409 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
410 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
411 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
412 ordered correctly
413 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
414 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
415 data.
416 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
417 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
418 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
419 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
420 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
421 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
422 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
423 the right free implementation
424 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
425 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
426 shm_open to pick wrong directory
427 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
428 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
429 protector=all)
430 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
431 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
432 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
433 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
434 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
435 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
436 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
437 uninitialized
438 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
439 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
440 system calls
441 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
442 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
443 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
444 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
445 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
446 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
447 deployments
448 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
449 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
450 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
451 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
452 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
453 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
454 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
455 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
456 is present
457 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
458 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
459 protector=all
460 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
461 information for the current directory
462 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
463 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
464 dl_runtime_resolve_*
465 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
466 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
467 containers
468 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
469 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
470 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
471 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
472 INT_MAX
473 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
474 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
475 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
476 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
477 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
478 tries resolving them lazily
479 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
480 libthread_db
481 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
482 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
483 argument
484 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
485 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
486 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
487 not set ENOMEM
488 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
489 randomization
490 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
491 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
492 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
493 IS_ERR_VALUE
494 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
495 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
496 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
497 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
498 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
499 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
500 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
501 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
502 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
503 with n >= 0x80000000
504 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
505 thread never allocated anything
506 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
507 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
508 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
509 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
510 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
511 on older kernels
512 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
513 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
514 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
515 AMD64 cpus
516 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
517 terminator
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522Major new features:
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524* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
525 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
526 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
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529 to change argv[0] string.
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532 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
533 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
534 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
535 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
536 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
537 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
538 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
539 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
540
541* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
542 information and library search path diagnostics.
543
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545 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
546 larger than fit in an integer.
547
96203980 548* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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550* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
551 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
552
553 - rv32imac ilp32
554 - rv32imafdc ilp32
555 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
556
557 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
558 2.28.
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561 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
562 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
563 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
564 fortification.
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569 mallinfo2 instead.
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572 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
573 Instead, the default implementation is used.
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576 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
577 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
578 prlimit.
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580* Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
581 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
582 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
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585 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
586 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
587 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
588 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
589 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
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592 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
593 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
594 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
595 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
596 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
597 loaded.
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602 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
603 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
604 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
605 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
606 perform any adjustments.
607
608* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
609 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
610 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
611 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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616
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934c48a0 618 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
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620 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
621 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
622
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624 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
625 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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628 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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631 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
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636 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
637 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
638 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
639 AT_EACCESS
640 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
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643 "haswell" platform subdirectory
644 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
645 with GCC
646 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
647 stack-protector=all
648 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
649 cases
650 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
651 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
652 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
653 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
654 changing gnuc version
655 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
656 incorrect
657 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
658 bits
659 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
660 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
661 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
662 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
663 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
664 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
665 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
666 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
667 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
668 too much stack space
669 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
670 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
671 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
672 with optimization.
673 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
674 anymore
675 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
676 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
677 non-FMA4 system
678 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
679 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
680 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
681 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
682 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
683 getaddrinfo
684 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
685 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
686 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
687 fault
688 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
689 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
690 at the end of a memory mapping
691 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
692 by the caller to the kernel
693 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
694 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
695 declarations for __sigsetjmp
696 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
697 monotonic clocks
698 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
699 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
700 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
701 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
702 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
703 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
704 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
705 one element
706 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
707 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
708 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
709 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
710 lazy bound
711 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
712 PI mutexes
713 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
714 not safe
715 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
716 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
717 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
718 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
719 platform
720 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
721 startup code
722 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
723 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
724 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
725 protected
726 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
727 only since 2.31
728 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
729 locked
730 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
731 aligned
732 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
733 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
734 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
735 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
736 detection logic
737 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
738 pclose(3))
739 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
740 setup
741 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
742 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
743 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
744 work
745 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
746 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
747 [27177] dynamic-link:
748 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
749 work
750 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
751 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
752 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
753 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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758Major new features:
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760* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
761 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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762 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
763
764* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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767 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
768 Three ABIs are supported:
769
770 - arc-linux-gnu
771 - arc-linux-gnuhf
772 - arceb-linux-gnu
773
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778 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
779
051be01f 780* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
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783 this option.
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786 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
787 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
788
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791 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
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794 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
795 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
796 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
797 libpthread.
798
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801 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
802 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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804 NULL for an invalid signal number.
805
806 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
807 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
808
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811 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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813 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
814 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
815
816 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
817 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
818
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820 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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822 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
823 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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825 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
826 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
827 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
828 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
829 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
830 BTI compatible.
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835 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
836 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
837 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
838 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
839 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
840 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
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843 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
844 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
845 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
846 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
847 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
848 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 849 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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853 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
854 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
855 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
856 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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858* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
859 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
860 was not declared in any header file.
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863 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
864 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
865 sigaction functions instead.
866
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868 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
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871 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
872 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
873 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
874 strsignal instead.
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877 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 878 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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880 strerror or strerror_r instead.
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883 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
884 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
885 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
886
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888 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
889 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
890 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
891 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
892 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
893 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
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896 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
897 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
898 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
899 flavor of secure RPC.)
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902 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
903 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
904 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
905 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
906 object, to enable the hooks.
907
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909 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
910 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
911 LDAP.
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921 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
922 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
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925 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
926 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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929 expanding ~user has been fixed.
930
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932 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
933 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
934 TALOS-2020-1019).
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939 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
940 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
941 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
942 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
943 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
944 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
945 filtee has constructor
946 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
947 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
948 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
949 character entities for infinity & pi
950 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
951 segfaults in applications
952 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
953 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
954 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
955 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
956 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
957 function with -mlong-double-64
958 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
959 binding
960 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
961 ld.so.cache
962 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
963 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
964 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
965 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
966 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
967 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
968 linker
969 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
970 dynamically loaded dsos
971 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
972 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
973 access
974 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
975 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
976 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
977 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
978 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
979 stale configuration forever
980 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
981 (CVE-2020-10029)
982 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
983 defaults to PIE
984 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
985 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
986 (CVE-2020-6096)
987 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
988 on 32 bit and old kernel
989 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
990 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
991 Occitan
992 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
993 amount of sigset_t bytes
994 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
995 strings
996 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
997 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
998 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
999 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1000 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1001 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1002 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1003 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1004 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1005 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1006 size_t
1007 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1008 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1009 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1010 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1011 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1012 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1013 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1014 cpu=power9
1015 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1016 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1017 segfault
1018 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1019 exiting detached thread
1020 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1021 for x32
1022 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1023 ERANGE
1024 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1025 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1026 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1027 dependencies in audit mode
1028 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1029 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1030 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1031 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1032 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1033 input
1034 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1035 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1036 preserve r2
1037 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1038 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1039 variables
1040 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1041 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1042 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1043 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1044 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1045 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1046 corruption in memset
1047
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1050
1051Major new features:
1052
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1053* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1054 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1055 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1056 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1057 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1058 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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1060* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1061 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1062 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1063 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1064
69ca4b54 1065* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 1066 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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1067 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1068
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1069* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1070
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1071* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1072 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1073 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1074 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1075 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1076 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1077 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1078 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1079
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1081
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1082* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1083 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1084 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1085 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1086 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1087 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
0b8c2f95 1088
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1090 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1091 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1092
1093* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1094 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1095 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1096 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1097
1098* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1099 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1100 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1101 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1102 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1103 made this no longer practical.
1104
1105 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1106 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1107 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1108 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1109 release.)
1110
1111 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1112 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1113 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1114
1115 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1116 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1117 using clock_gettime instead.
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1119* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1120 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1121 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1122 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1123 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1124
1125 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1126 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1127 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1128 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1129
1130 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1131 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1132 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1133 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1134 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1135 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1136
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1137 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1138 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1139 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1140 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1141 offset API.
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1143* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1144 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1145 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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1147 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1148 configurations.
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1150* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1151 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1152 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1153 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1154 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1155
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1157 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1158 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1159 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1160 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1161 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1162 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1163 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1164
1165 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1166 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1167
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1168* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1169 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1170 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1171 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1172 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1173 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1174
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1176
a1bd5f86 1177* It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
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1178 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1179 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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1181* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1182 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1183 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1184
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1185Security related changes:
1186
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1187 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1188 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1189
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1190 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1191 environment variable during program execution after a security
1192 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1193 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1194 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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1196The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1198 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1199 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1200 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1201 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1202 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1203 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1204 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1205 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1206 linking failure
1207 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1208 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1209 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1210 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1211 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1212 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1213 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1214 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1215 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1216 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1217 7408-2005
1218 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1219 with localedef
1220 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1221 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1222 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1223 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1224 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1225 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1226 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1227 utmp entries
1228 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1229 ABSOLUTE ABI
1230 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1231 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1232 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1233 (stringop-overflow error)
1234 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1235 functions other can lead to crashes
1236 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1237 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1238 unconditionally
1239 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1240 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1241 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1242 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1243 still can fail with an error
1244 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1245 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1246 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1247 initialized correctly
1248 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1249 -frewrite-includes
1250 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1251 value to an unsigned
1252 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1253 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1254 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1255 protection
1256 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1257 ifunc variant.
1258 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1259 al. for Clang++
1260 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1261 (Slovenian)
1262 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1263 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1264 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1265 with -std=c11
1266 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1267 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1268 part
1269 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1270 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1271 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1272 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1273 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1274 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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1277Version 2.30
1278
1279Major new features:
1280
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1281* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1282 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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1283 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1284
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1285* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1286 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1288* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1289 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1290 to the callback function.
1291
51ea67d5 1292* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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1294* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1295 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1296 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
1297
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1298* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1299
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1300* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1301 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1302 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1303 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1304 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1305
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1306* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1307 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1308 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1309 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1310 link time reference, is gone.
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1313 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1314 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1315 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1316 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1317 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1318 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1319 the clock choice at initialization time).
1320
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1321* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1322 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1323 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1324
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1325Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1326
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1327* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1328 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1329 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1330 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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1331 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1332 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1333 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1334 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1335 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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1337* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1338 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1339 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1340 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1341 since glibc 2.17.
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1343* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1344 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1345
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1346* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1347 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1348
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1349* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1350 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1351
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1352* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1353 BIND_NOW flag.
1354
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1355* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1356 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1357 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1358
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1359* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1360 header have been removed.
1361
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1362* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1363 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1364 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1365 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
1366
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1368
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1370
1371 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1372 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1374Security related changes:
1375
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1376 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1377 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1378 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1379 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1380 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1381 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1382 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1384 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1385 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1386 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
1387
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1390 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1391 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1392 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1393 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1394 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1395 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1396 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1397 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1398 invalid input drops valid char
1399 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1400 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1401 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1402 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1403 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1404 malloc.h.
1405 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1406 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1407 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1408 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1409 functions
1410 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1411 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1412 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1413 for long double = double
1414 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1415 long double = double
1416 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1417 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1418 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1419 long timeouts
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1422 checking for NULL.
1423 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1424 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1425 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1426 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1427 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1428 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1429 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1430 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1431 not the default "nor"
1432 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1433 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1434 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1435 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1436 compiler barriers.
1437 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1438 unnecessary librt dependencies
1439 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1440 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1441 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1442 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1443 unsorted chunk
1444 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1445 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1446 to R_SPARC_H44
1447 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1448 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1449 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1450 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1451 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1452 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1453 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1454 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1455 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1456 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1457 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1458 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1459 was not used
1460 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1461 tests
1462 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1463 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1464 time_t changes
1465 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1466 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1467 kernels and break testing
1468 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1469 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1470 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1471 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1472 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1473 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1474 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1475 -O3 -march=skylake
1476 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1477 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1478 crash
1479 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1480 linked glibc
1481 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1482 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1483 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1484 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1485 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1486 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1487 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1488 always implemented in the same library
1489 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1490 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1491 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1492 testroot
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1496
1497Major new features:
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1500 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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1502* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1503 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1504 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1505 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1506 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1507 configured location.
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1512 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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1515 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1516 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1517 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1518 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1519 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1520 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1521 process actually does not use HTM).
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1524 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1525 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1526 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1527 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1528 of the same name.
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1530* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
1531 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1532 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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1536* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1537 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1538 supported:
1539 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1540 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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1543 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1544 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1545 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1546 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1547 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1548 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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1551 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1552 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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1557 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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1559* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
1560 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1561 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1562 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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1564* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
1565 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1566 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1567 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1568 structures.
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1570* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
1571 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1572 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1573 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1574 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1575 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1576
1577 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1578 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1579 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1580 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1581 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1582
1583 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1584 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1585 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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1588
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1592 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1593
1594 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1595 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1599 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1600 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1601 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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1604 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1605 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1606 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1607 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1609 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1610 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1611 or command injection issues in applications.
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1615 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1616 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1617 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1618 thousands
1619 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1620 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1621 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1622 --param options)
1623 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1624 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1625 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1626 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1627 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1628 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1629 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1630 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1631 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1632 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1633 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1634 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1635 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1636 pointer argument is non-NULL
1637 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1638 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1639 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1640 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1641 multithreads call popen
1642 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1643 and pthread_create fails.
1644 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1645 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1646 constructor
1647 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1648 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1649 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1650 source tree
1651 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1652 float
1653 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1654 one error
1655 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1656 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1657 linker
1658 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1659 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1660 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1661 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1662 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1663 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1664 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1665 filesystems
1666 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1667 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1668 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1669 functions
1670 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1671 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1672 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1673 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1674 have wrong type
1675 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1676 wrong type
1677 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1678 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1679 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1680 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1681 threads
1682 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1683 start.S
1684 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1685 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1686 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1687 powerpc64le
1688 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1689 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1690 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1691 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1692 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1693 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1694 strftime
1695 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1696 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1697 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1698 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1699 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1700 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1701 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1702 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1703 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1704 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1705 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1706 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1707 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1708 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1709 tcache size
1710 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1711 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1712 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1713 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1714 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1715 (CVE-2018-19591)
1716 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1717 nearest rounding mode
1718 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1719 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1720 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1721 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1722 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1723 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1724 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1725 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1726 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1727 error
1728 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1729 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1730 using GCC 8
1731 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1732 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1733 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1734 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1735 ppc64le
1736 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1737 expected result
1738 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1739 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1740 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1741 sigaltstack
1742 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1743 answers will be rejected)
1744 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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1749Major new features:
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1752 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1753 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1754 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1755 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1756 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1757 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1758 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1759 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1760 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1761 archive or binary locales.
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1764 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1765 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1766 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1767 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1768 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1769 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1770 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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1772 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1773 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1774 validated for i686.
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1777 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1778 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1779 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1780 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1781 field) to indicate such support is required.
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1784 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1785 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1787* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1788 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1789
1790 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1791 fMxaddfNx functions.
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1793 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1794 fMxsubfNx functions.
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1796 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1797 fMxmulfNx functions.
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1799 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1800 fMxdivfNx functions.
1801
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1806 and Kashubian.
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e607a352 1809 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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1812 patches.
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1815 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1816 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1817 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1818 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1819 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1820 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1821 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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1824 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1825 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1826 the fstatat64 function.
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1828* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1829 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1830 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1831 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1832 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1833 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1834 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1835 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1836 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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1839 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1840 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1841 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1842 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1843 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1844 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1845 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1846 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1847 results in a load failure now.
1848
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1850 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1851 <threads.h>:
1852
1853 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1854 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1855
1856 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1857 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1858
1859 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1860
1861 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1862 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1863
1864 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1865
1866 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
1867
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1869
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1870* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1871 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1872 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1873
1874* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1875 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1876 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1877 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1878 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1879 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1880
1881* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1882 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1883 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1884 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1885 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1886 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1887 (Bug #1190.)
1888
1889* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1890 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1891 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1892 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1893 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1894 further explanation.
1895
1896 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1897 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1898 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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1900* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
1901
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1902* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1903 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1904 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
1905
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1906* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1907 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1908 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1909 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
1910
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1911* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1912 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1913 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1914 for this function instead.
1915
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1916* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1917 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1918 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1919
1920* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1921 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1922 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1923 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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1925* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1926 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1927 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1928 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1929 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
1930
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1931* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1932 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1933 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1934 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1935 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1936 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1937 such as libgcrypt.
1938
1939* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1940 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1941 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1942 enabled.
1943
1944* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1945 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1946 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1947
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1948* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1949 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1950 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1951 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1952 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1953 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1954
1955 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1956 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1957 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1958 behavior in a future release.
1959
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1961
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1964Security related changes:
1965
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1966 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1967 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1968 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1969 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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1971 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1972 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1973
1974 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1975 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1976 Izbyshev.
1977
1978 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1979 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1980 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1981
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1983
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1984 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1985 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1986 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1987 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1988 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1989 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1990 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1991 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1992 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1993 14651
1994 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1995 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1996 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1997 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1998 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1999 conversion is given
2000 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2001 date
2002 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2003 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2004 scope with -O1 and higher
2005 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2006 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2007 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2008 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2009 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2010 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2011 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2012 horrible machine code)
2013 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2014 last constant.
2015 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2016 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2017 symbols
2018 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2019 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2020 defined
2021 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2022 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2023 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2024 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2025 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2026 fpscr.c'
2027 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2028 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2029 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2030 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2031 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2032 the base address
2033 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2034 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2035 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2036 open_verify
2037 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2038 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2039 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2040 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2041 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2042 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2043 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2044 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2045 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2046 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2047 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2048 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2049 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2050 dlopen
2051 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2052 AT_SECURE=1
2053 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2054 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2055 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2056 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2057 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2058 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2059 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2060 for Spanish with CLDR
2061 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2062 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2063 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2064 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2065 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2066 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2067 es_BO
2068 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2069 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
2070 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2071 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2072 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2073 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2074 dlopen failures
2075 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2076 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2077 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2078 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2079 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2080 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2081 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2082 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2083 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2084 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2085 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2086 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2087 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2088 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2089 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2090 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2091 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2092 makecontext
2093 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2094 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2095 required
2096 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2097 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2098 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2099 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2100 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2101 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2102 disabled
2103 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2104 failure
2105 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2106 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2107 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2108 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2109 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2110 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2111 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2112 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2113 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2114 and libc build with -Os)
2115 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2116 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2117 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2118 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2119 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2120 that changes /etc/passwd
2121 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2122 (CVE-2018-11237)
2123 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2124 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2125 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2126 posix/regcomp.c
2127 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2128 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2129 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2130 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2131 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2132 AT_SECURE
2133 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2134 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2135 parser.c
2136 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2137 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2138 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2139 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2140 directed rounding
2141 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2142 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2143 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2144 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2145 lookup
2146 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2147 interposition
2148 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2149 DSO boundaries.
2150 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2151 <linux/time.h>
2152 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2153 checking
2154 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2155 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2156 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2157 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2158 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2159 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2160 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2161 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2162 processors
2163 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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2167
2168Major new features:
2169
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2170* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2171 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
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2174 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2175 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2176 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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2177 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2178 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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ac817e08 2180* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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2182 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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2185
4cf82d23 2186* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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2188* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2189 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2190 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2191 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2192 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2193 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2194 from a security and performance perspective.
2195
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2196* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2197 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2198 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2199 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2200
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2203 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2204 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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2205 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2206
a23aa5b7 2207* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
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2210 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2211 _Float128.
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2214 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2215 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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2219* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2220 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2221 pkey_get.
2222
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2225* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2226
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2228 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2229 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
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2232 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2233 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2234 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2235 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2236 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2237 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2238
2239 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2240 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2241 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2242 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2243 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2244 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2245 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2246
2247 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2248 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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2250 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2251 respectively.
2252
2253 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2254 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2255 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2256 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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2258 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2259 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2260 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
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2263 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 2264 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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2267 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2268 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2269
2270 - rv64imac lp64
2271 - rv64imafdc lp64
2272 - rv64imafdc lp64d
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2276* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2277 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 2278 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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2279 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2280 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2281 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2282 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2283 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2284 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2285 fix this.
2286
f1a844ac
FW
2287* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2288 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2289 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2290
2fc21aaa
FW
2291* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2292 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2293 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2294 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2295 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2296 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2297 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2298 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2299 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2300 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2301 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2302 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2303 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2304 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2305 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2306 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2307 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2308 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2309 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2310 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2311 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2312 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2313 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2314 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2315 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2316 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2317
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2318* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2319 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
00cdcf5a 2320
813378e9
JM
2321* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2322 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2323 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2324 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2325 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2326 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2327 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2328
5a80d39d
JM
2329* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2330 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2331 exp10l for these functions instead.
2332
4fa9b3bf
JM
2333* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2334 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2335 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2336
644d3857
JM
2337* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2338 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2339 ignored.
2340
8df5d347
JM
2341* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2342 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2343 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2344 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2345
c0a25aa9
FW
2346* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2347 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2348
34eb4157
FW
2349* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2350 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2351
754034c4
JM
2352* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2353 programs.
2354
ed95f611
AZ
2355* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2356
48a8f832
ZW
2357* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2358 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2359 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2360 instead.
2361
2362 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2363 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2364 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2365 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2366 use, but predates the bits convention.
2367
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2368Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2369
1faaf703
JB
2370* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2371 subdirectory.
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2372
2373Security related changes:
2374
403143e1
FW
2375 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2376 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2377 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2378 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2379 script.)
00cdcf5a 2380
822f523b
FW
2381 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2382 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2383 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2384 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 2385
914c9994
FW
2386 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2387 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2388 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2389 of service.
2390
15e84c63
AJ
2391 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2392 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
a159b53f
PE
2393 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2394
37ac8e63
FW
2395 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2396 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2397 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2398 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2399
8a0b17e4
FW
2400 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2401 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2402 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2403 Qualys.
2404
3ff3dfa5
FW
2405 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2406 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2407 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2408 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2409 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2410
3e3c904d
AJ
2411 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2412 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2413 current directory.
2414
52a713fd
DL
2415 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2416 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2417 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2418
4590634f
FW
2419 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2420 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2421 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2422
71aa429b
FW
2423 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2424 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2425 small, instead of NULL.
2426
00cdcf5a
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2427The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2428
242cbc90
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2429 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2430 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2431 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2432 locale
2433 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2434 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2435 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2436 cases
2437 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2438 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2439 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2440 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2441 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2442 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2443 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2444 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2445 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2446 "Bangla"
2447 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2448 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2449 width Latin characters
2450 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2451 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2452 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2453 letters
2454 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2455 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2456 (CVE-2009-5064)
2457 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2458 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2459 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2460 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2461 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2462 if malloc succeeded
2463 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2464 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2465 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2466 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2467 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2468 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2469 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2470 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2471 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2472 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2473 U+309A
2474 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2475 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2476 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2477 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2478 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2479 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2480 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2481 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2482 for Nicaragua
2483 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2484 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2485 are not found.
2486 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2487 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2488 access
2489 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2490 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2491 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2492 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2493 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2494 __regcall calling convention
2495 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2496 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2497 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2498 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2499 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2500 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2501 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2502 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2503 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2504 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2505 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2506 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2507 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2508 locale
2509 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2510 protector=all
2511 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2512 wcwidth
2513 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2514 consistency check failures
2515 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2516 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2517 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2518 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2519 PIE
2520 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2521 locales
2522 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2523 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2524 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2525 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2526 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2527 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2528 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2529 on memory allocation failure
2530 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2531 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2532 the suspect)
2533 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2534 default (i386)
2535 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2536 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2537 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2538 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2539 instead of EAI_NODATA
2540 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2541 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2542 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2543 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2544 implementation
2545 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2546 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2547 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2548 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2549 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2550 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2551 allocation in syscall loops)
2552 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2553 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2554 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2555 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2556 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2557 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2558 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2559 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2560 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2561 occur with -O3
2562 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2563 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2564 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2565 amounts)
2566 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2567 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2568 niu_NZ
2569 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2570 checks
2571 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2572 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2573 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2574 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2575 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2576 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2577 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2578 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2579 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2580 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2581 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2582 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2583 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2584 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2585 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2586 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2587 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2588 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2589 parsing after OOM
2590 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2591 object
2592 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2593 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2594 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
2595 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2596 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2597 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 2598 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
2599 ppc64le
2600 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2601 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2602 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2603 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2604 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2605 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2606 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2607 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2608 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2609 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2610 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2611 math_force_eval
2612 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2613 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2614 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2615 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2616 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2617 the svid compat wrapper
2618 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2619 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2620 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2621 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2622 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2623 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2624 --verbose.
2625 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2626 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2627 to 2.26
2628 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2629 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2630 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2631 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2632 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2633 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2634 (CVE-2017-15804)
2635 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2636 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2637 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2638 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2639 failure."
2640 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2641 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2642 -m32
2643 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2644 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2645 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2646 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2647 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2648 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2649 inside the ASCII printable range
2650 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2651 -mlong-double-64
2652 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2653 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2654 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2655 Internet
2656 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2657 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2658 backslash
2659 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2660 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2661 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2662 heaps in an arena
2663 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2664 networking interface
2665 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2666 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2667 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2668 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2669 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2670 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2671 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2672 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2673 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2674 order
2675 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2676 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2677 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2678 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2679 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2680 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2681 same as for Croatian
2682 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2683 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2684 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2685 for initial thread"
2686 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2687 SC_SSIZE_MAX
2688 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2689 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2690 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2691 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2692 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2693 (CVE-2017-1000408)
2694 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2695 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2696 modified in case of success
2697 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2698 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2699 success
2700 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2701 stack-protector=all
2702 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2703 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2704 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2705 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2706 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2707 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2708 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2709 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2710 adding it on top
2711 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2712 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2713 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2714 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2715 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2716 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2717 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2718 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2719 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2720 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2721 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2722 elision and tunables
2723 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2724 "invalid" exception
2725 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2726 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2727 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2728 exception
2729 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2730 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2731 power4
2732 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2733 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2734 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2735 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2736 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2737 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2738 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2739 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2740 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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2743Version 2.26
2744
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2745Major new features:
2746
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2747* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2748 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2749 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2750 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2751 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2752 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2753 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2754
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2755* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2756 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 2757 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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2758 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2759 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2760 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2761 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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2763* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2764 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2765 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 2766
2b2ccd0c 2767* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 2768
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2769 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2770 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2771 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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2773 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2774 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2775 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2776 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2777 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 2778
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2779 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2780 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2781 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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2783* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2784 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 2785
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2786* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2787 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2788 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2789 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 2790
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2791* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2792 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2793 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2794 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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2796* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2797 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2798 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2799 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 2800
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2801* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2802 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2803 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 2804
2b2ccd0c 2805* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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2806 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2807 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2808 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 2809
2b2ccd0c 2810 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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2811 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2812 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2813 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2814 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2815
2816 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2817 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2818 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2819 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2820 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2821 interfaces should be used instead.
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2823Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2824
2825* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2826 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2827 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2828 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2829 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2830 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2831 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2832 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2833
2834* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2835 removed.
2836
2837* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 2838 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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2839 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2840 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2841
2842* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2843 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2844 default.
2845
2846 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2847 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2848 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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2849 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2850 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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2851
2852 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2853 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2854 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2855 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2856
2857* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2858 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2859 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2860 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2861
2862* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2863 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 2864
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2865* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2866 exported by accident.
2867
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2868* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2869 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2870 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2871
2872* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2873 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2874 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2875 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2876
2877* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2878
2879* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2880
2881* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2882 free instead.
2883
2884* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2885 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2886
2887* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2888 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2889
2890* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2891 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2892 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2893 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2894 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2895 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2896 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2897 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2898
2899* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2900 synced with the kernel:
2901
2902 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2903 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2904
2905 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2906 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2907 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2908
2909 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2910 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2911
2912Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2913
2914* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2915 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2916 x86-32 and x86-64.)
2917
7e368000 2918* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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2920* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2921 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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2922
2923 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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2924 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2925 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2926 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 2927 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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2929Security related changes:
2930
e14a2772 2931* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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2932 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2933
2934* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2935 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2936
2937* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2938 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2939 (CVE-2010-3192).
2940
2941* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2942 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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2944The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2945
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2946 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2947 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2948 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2949 fields
2950 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2951 (CVE-2010-3192)
2952 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2953 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2954 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2955 ld.bfd is available
2956 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2957 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2958 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2959 x86 and other generic code
2960 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2961 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2962 incorrect
2963 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2964 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2965 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2966 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2967 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2968 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2969 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2970 resolver
2971 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2972 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2973 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2974 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2975 chillu characters
2976 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2977 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2978 receiving data
2979 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2980 whitespace
2981 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2982 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2983 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2984 for Peru
2985 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2986 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2987 failures consistently
2988 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2989 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2990 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2991 frame-pointer on i386
2992 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2993 register
2994 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2995 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2996 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2997 generic c code is used
2998 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2999 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3000 around 4000
3001 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3002 (CVE-2017-12133)
3003 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3004 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3005 with -lieee
3006 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3007 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3008 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3009 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3010 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3011 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3012 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3013 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3014 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3015 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3016 remove()
3017 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3018 checked for errors.
3019 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3020 new posix_spawn implementation
3021 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3022 leads to lower CPU frequency
3023 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3024 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3025 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3026 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3027 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3028 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3029 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3030 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3031 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3032 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3033 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3034 not support gethostbyname4_r
3035 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3036 switching
3037 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3038 arenas
3039 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3040 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3041 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3042 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3043 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3044 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3045 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3046 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3047 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3048 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3049 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3050 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3051 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3052 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3053 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3054 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3055 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3056 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3057 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3058 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3059 retry value
3060 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3061 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3062 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3063 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3064 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3065 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3066 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3067 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3068 [21537] libc:
3069 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3070 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3071 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3072 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3073 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3074 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3075 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3076 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3077 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3078 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3079 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3080 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3081 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3082 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3083 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3084 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3085 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3086 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3087 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3088 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3089 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3090 issue on x86-64
3091 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3092 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3093 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3094 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3095 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3096 construction
3097 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3098 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3099 between_2_3
3100 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3101 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3102 conditions
3103 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3104 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3105 Hindi Locale
3106 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3107 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3108 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3109 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3110 locale
3111 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3112 leading to relocation crash
3113 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3114 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3115 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3116 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3117 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3118 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3119 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3120 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3121 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3122 locale
3123 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3124 locale
3125 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3126 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3127 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3128 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3129 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3130 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3131 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3132 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3133 strings
3134 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3135 protector=all
3136 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3137 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
3138 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3139 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3140 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3141 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3142 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3143 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3144 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3145 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3146 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3147 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3148 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3149 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3150 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3151 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3152 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3153 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3154 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3155 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3156 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3157 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3158 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3159 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3160 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3161 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3162 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3163 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3164 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3165 with unicode 9.0
3166 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3167 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3168 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3169 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3170 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 3171
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3173Version 2.25
3174
48789000
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3175* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3176 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3177 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3178 Library.
e720d3d9 3179
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3180* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3181 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 3182 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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3183 the GNU C Library.
3184
412cb261
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3185* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3186 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3187 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3188 the GNU C Library.
3189
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3190* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3191 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3192 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3193 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3194 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3195 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3196 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3197 will not.
3198
3199 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3200 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3201 many years.
3202
dbab6577
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3203* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3204 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3205 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3206
3207 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3208 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3209 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3210 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3211 problem.
3212
ec94343f 3213* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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3214 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3215 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 3216
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3217* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3218 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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3219 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3220 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3221 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3222 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3223 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3224 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3225 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3226 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3227 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3228 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 3229
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3230* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3231
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3232 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3233
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3234 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3235 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3236 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 3237
55a38f82
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3238 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3239 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3240
525f8039
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3241 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3242 fminmagf, fminmagl.
3243
1e7c8fcc
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3244 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3245
29cb9293 3246 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 3247
cc6a8d74
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3248 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3249 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 3250
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3251 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3252
eb3c12c7 3253 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 3254 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 3255
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3256* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3257 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3258
cecbc796
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3259* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3260 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3261 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3262
ea1bd74d
ZW
3263* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3264 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3265 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3266 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3267 effects of the memory clear).
3268
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3269* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3270 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3271 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3272 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3273
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3274* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3275 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3276 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3277 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3278 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3279 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 3280
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3281* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3282 have been added.
3283
705a79f8
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3284* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3285 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3286 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3287 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3288 as large as several megabytes.
3289
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3290* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3291 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3292 been removed.
3293
e863cce5
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3294* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3295 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3296 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3297 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3298 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3299 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3300 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3301
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3302* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3303 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3304 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3305 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3306
099191b1 3307* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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3308 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3309 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3310 Internet.
3311
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3312* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3313 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3314 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 3315
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3316* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3317 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3318 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3319 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3320
3a2a1d2c
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3321* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3322 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3323 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3324 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3325 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3326
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3327* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3328 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3329 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3330 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3331 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3332
6815a33d
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3333* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3334 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3335 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3336 did not reflect that.
3337
022dfdce
SL
3338* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3339 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3340 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3341 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3342 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3343 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3344 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3345 'gcc/config.gcc'.
3346
23b5cae1
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3347* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3348 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3349 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3350 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3351
7715d3ab
SP
3352* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3353 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3354 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3355 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3356
0cea3587
SP
3357* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3358 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3359 guarantees.
3360
3361* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3362 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3363 make state changes.
3364
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3365Security related changes:
3366
fc82b0a2 3367* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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3368 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3369 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3370 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 3371 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 3372
fc82b0a2
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3373* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3374 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3375 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3376 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3377 (CVE-2015-5180)
3378
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3379The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3380
fdb724f9 3381 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
3382 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3383 protector-all
3384 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3385 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3386 before it started waiting
3387 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3388 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3389 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3390 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3391 wrong type
3392 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3393 library linked with pthread
3394 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3395 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3396 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3397 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3398 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3399 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3400 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3401 when it shouldnt
3402 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3403 not
3404 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3405 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3406 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3407 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3408 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3409 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3410 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3411 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3412 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3413 termination
3414 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3415 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3416 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3417 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3418 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3419 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3420 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3421 causes a segmentation fault
3422 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3423 linking
3424 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3425 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3426 uninitialized GOT
3427 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3428 versions
3429 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3430 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3431 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3432 is always true.
3433 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3434 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3435 modes
3436 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3437 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3438 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3439 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3440 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3441 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3442 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3443 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3444 libpthread.a
3445 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3446 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3447 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3448 _res_hconf
3449 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3450 information.
3451 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3452 penalty
3453 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3454 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3455 cause transition penalty
3456 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3457 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3458 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3459 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3460 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3461 mcount.oS)
3462 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3463 Checking
3464 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3465 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3466 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3467 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3468 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3469 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3470 multi-arch
3471 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3472 (RES_USEBSTRING)
3473 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3474 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3475 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3476 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3477 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3478 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3479 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3480 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3481 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3482 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3483 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3484 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3485 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3486 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3487 glibc
3488 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3489 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3490 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3491 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3492 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3493 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3494 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3495 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3496 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3497 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3498 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3499 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3500 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3501 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3502 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3503 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3504 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3505 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3506 RES_USE_INET6
3507 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3508 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3509 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3510 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3511 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3512 wrong condition
3513 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3514 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3515 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3516 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3517 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3518 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3519 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3520 clang
3521 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3522 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3523 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3524 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3525 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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3527Version 2.24
3528
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JM
3529* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3530 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3531 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3532 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3533 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3534 architectures.
3535
b6ebba70
MF
3536* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3537 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3538 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 3539
7584a3f9
FW
3540* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3541 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3542
b49ab5f4
FW
3543* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3544 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3545 instead of “union wait”.
3546
ced8f893
SG
3547* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3548 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3549 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3550 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3551 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3552 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3553 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3554
2ba3cfa1
FW
3555* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3556 API.
3557
b7a9b7b0
MF
3558* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3559 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3560 drop it.
6a54bcda 3561
41a359e2
RS
3562* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3563 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3564 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3565 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3566 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3567 extensions.
3568
11fca961
AZ
3569Security related changes:
3570
f5b3338d
FW
3571* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3572 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3573 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3574
4ab2ab03
FW
3575* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3576 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3577 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3578 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 3579
5171f307
FW
3580* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3581 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3582 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3583
bc779a1a
FW
3584* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3585 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3586 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3587
fab38231
FW
3588* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3589 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3590 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3591 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3592
11fca961
AZ
3593The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3594
3c4f81ec
CD
3595 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3596 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3597 of MS-DOS.
3598 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3599 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3600 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3601 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3602 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3603 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3604 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3605 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3606 CLDR data
3607 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3608 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3609 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3610 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3611 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3612 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3613 romanisation
3614 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3615 and +/-
3616 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3617 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3618 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3619 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3620 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3621 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3622 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3623 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3624 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3625 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3626 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3627 all locales
3628 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3629 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3630 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3631 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3632 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3633 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3634 execute
3635 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3636 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3637 -Wsystem-headers
3638 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3639 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3640 Romanian locale data
3641 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3642 symbol
3643 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3644 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3645 language
3646 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3647 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3648 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3649 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3650 machine
3651 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3652 description
3653 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3654 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3655 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3656 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3657 when using RTLD_NEXT
3658 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3659 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3660 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3661 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3662 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3663 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3664 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3665 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3666 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3667 Excavator core
3668 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3669 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3670 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3671 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3672 double range
3673 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3674 part zero incorrect
3675 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3676 equality tests
3677 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3678 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3679 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3680 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3681 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3682 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3683 glibc-2.22
3684 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3685 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3686 'tst-numeric.c'
3687 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3688 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3689 low part
3690 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3691 result
3692 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3693 unaligned stack
3694 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3695 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3696 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3697 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3698 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3699 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3700 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3701 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3702 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3703 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3704 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3705 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3706 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3707 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3708 modes
3709 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3710 server addresses
3711 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3712 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3713 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3714 response to getaddrinfo
3715 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3716 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3717 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3718 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3719 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3720 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3721 sometimes incorrect
3722 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3723 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3724 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3725 record types
3726 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3727 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3728 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3729 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3730 (CVE-2016-3075)
3731 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3732 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3733 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3734 resolving symbols
3735 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3736 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3737 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3738 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3739 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3740 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3741 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3742 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3743 gethosts
3744 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3745 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3746 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3747 (CVE-2016-3706)
3748 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3749 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3750 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3751 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3752 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3753 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3754 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3755 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3756 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3757 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3758 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3759 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3760 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3761 executable
3762 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3763 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3764 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3765 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3766 XPG3
3767 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3768 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3769 (CVE-2016-4429)
3770 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3771 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3772 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3773 AS not supporting AVX512
3774 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3775 sNaN argument
3776 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3777 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3778 argument
3779 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3780 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3781 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3782 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3783 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3784 eax=0x80000001
3785 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3786 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3787 subnormals
3788 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3789 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3790 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3791 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3792 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3793 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3794 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3795 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3796 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3797 input
3798 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3799 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3800 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3801 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3802 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3803 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3804 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3805 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3806 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3807 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3808 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3809 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3810 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3811 double rounding
3812 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3813 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3814 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3815 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3816 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3817 (Only arm/linux)
3818 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3819 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3820 fallbacks
3821 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3822 "invalid" exceptions
3823 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3824 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3825 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3826 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3827 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3828 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3829 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3830 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3831 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 3832\f
aeb47bbc
DM
3833Version 2.23
3834
23256f5e
MF
3835* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3836 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3837 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3838 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3839 89, 16061, and 18568.
3840
2359035a
FW
3841* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3842 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3843 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3844 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3845 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3846 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3847 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3848
8b7b7f75
MW
3849* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3850 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3851 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3852
2eecc8af
FW
3853* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3854 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3855 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3856 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3857 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3858 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3859 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3860
a62719ba
FW
3861* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3862 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3863 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3864 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3865 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 3866 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
3867 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3868 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 3869
bc148ca1
MF
3870* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3871 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3872 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3873 independent of the GNU C Library.
3874
1c70b6f1
ZW
3875* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3876 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 3877
eed3e1eb
JM
3878* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3879 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3880 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3881 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3882 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3883 Linux kernel.
3884
1efad39b
SL
3885* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3886 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 3887
d709042a
JM
3888* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3889 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3890 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3891 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3892 defining their own copy.
3893
b08b4218
JM
3894* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3895 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3896 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 3897
8f5e8b01
JM
3898Security related changes:
3899
6400ae6e
FW
3900* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3901 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3902
3903* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3904 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3905 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3906 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3907 (CVE-2015-8777)
3908
3909* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3910 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3911
3912* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3913 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3914
8f5e8b01
JM
3915* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3916 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 3917 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 3918
e9db92d3
CD
3919* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3920 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3921 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3922 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3923 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3924 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3925 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3926 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3927 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3928 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3929 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3930 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3931 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3932
ad372e29 3933The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 3934
ad372e29
AZ
3935 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3936 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3937 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3938 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3939 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3940 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3941 use `mkstemp'
3942 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3943 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3944 overflow/underflow errors
3945 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3946 overflow/underflow
3947 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3948 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3949 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3950 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3951 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3952 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3953 are not contiguous
3954 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3955 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3956 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3957 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3958 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3959 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3960 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3961 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3962 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3963 all exceptions
3964 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3965 arguments
3966 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3967 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3968 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3969 should include
3970 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3971 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3972 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3973 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3974 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3975 GNU/Linux
3976 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3977 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3978 arguments
3979 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3980 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3981 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3982 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3983 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3984 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3985 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3986 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3987 rounding results
3988 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3989 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3990 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3991 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3992 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3993 fails
3994 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3995 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3996 block boundary
3997 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3998 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3999 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4000 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4001 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4002 4.7?
4003 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4004 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4005 (related to lock elision)
4006 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4007 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4008 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4009 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4010 (CVE-2015-8779)
4011 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4012 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4013 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4014 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4015 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4016 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4017 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4018 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4019 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4020 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4021 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4022 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4023 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4024 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4025 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4026 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4027 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4028 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4029 contains a vector instruction exception.
4030 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4031 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4032 locales
4033 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4034 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4035 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4036 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4037 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4038 missing break ?
4039 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4040 32bit processes
4041 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4042 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4043 infinity
4044 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4045 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4046 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4047 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4048 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4049 be forced unloaded
4050 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4051 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4052 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4053 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4054 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4055 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4056 statically too large
4057 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4058 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4059 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4060 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4061 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4062 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4063 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4064 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4065 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4066 FUTEX_SHARED
4067 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4068 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4069 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4070 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4071 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4072 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4073 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4074 opendir()
4075 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4076 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4077 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4078 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4079 signgam
4080 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4081 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4082 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4083 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4084 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4085 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4086 dependencies
4087 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4088 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4089 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4090 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4091 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4092 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4093 (CVE-2015-8776)
4094 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4095 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4096 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4097 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4098 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4099 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4100 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4101 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4102 contention
4103 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4104 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4105 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4106 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4107 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4108 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4109 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4110 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4111 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4112 rounding modes
4113 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4114 ILP32
4115 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4116 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4117 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4118 threshold
4119 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4120 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4121 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4122 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4123 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4124 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4125 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4126 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4127 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4128 pthread_setaffinity_np
4129 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4130 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4131 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4132 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4133 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4134 prelink
4135 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4136 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4137 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4138 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4139 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4140 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4141 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4142 bits/mathcalls.h
4143 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4144 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4145 for C99-based standards
4146 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4147 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4148 math-only
4149 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4150 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4151 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4152 disabled
4153 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4154 "inexact" exceptions
4155 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4156 arguments
4157 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4158 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4159 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4160 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4161 rules
4162 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4163 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4164 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4165 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4166 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4167 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4168 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4169 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4170 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4171 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4172 from 32bit
4173 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4174 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4175 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4176 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4177 subnormals
4178 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4179 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4180 error on 32-bit architectures
4181 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4182 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4183 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4184 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4185 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4186 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4187 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4188 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4189 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4190 -Os
4191 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4192 CPU's.
4193 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4194 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4195 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4196 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4197 architectures
4198 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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1c7a4a51
JM
4200Version 2.22
4201
4202* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4203
3df5cd98 4204 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
4205 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4206 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4207 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4208 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4209 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4210 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4211 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4212 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4213 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4214 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4215 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4216 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4217 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4218 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4219 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4220 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4221 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
4222 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4223 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 4224
f7fba805
SL
4225* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4226 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4227
2959eda9
AS
4228* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4229 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4230 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4231 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4232 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4233 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 4234
42261ad7
FW
4235* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4236 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4237 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4238 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4239 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4240
afcd9480
AM
4241* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4242 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4243 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4244
4a4839c9
AO
4245* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4246 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4247 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4248 17998.
4249
b13b96ca
AS
4250* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4251 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4252 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
4253
4254* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
4255 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4256 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
4257 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4258 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
4259 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4260 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 4261 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
4262
4263* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4264 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4265 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4266 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
4267
4268* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4269 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4270 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
4271
4272* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4273 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
4274
4275* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4276 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4277 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4278
a03ba363 4279 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
4280 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4281 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 4282\f
58b930ae
SP
4283Version 2.21
4284
4285* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4286
042e1521 4287 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
4288 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4289 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4290 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4291 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4292 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4293 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4294 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4295 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4296 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4297 17892.
4298
46d54873
FW
4299* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4300 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4301 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4302 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4303 intended.
042e1521
CD
4304
4305* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4306 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4307 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4308 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4309 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4310 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 4311
522e6ee3
CLT
4312* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4313
d3b00f46
AZ
4314* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4315 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 4316 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 4317
8d2c0a59
AZ
4318* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4319 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4320 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4321 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4322 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4323 effects being visible outside transactions.
4324
dc400d7b
RE
4325* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4326 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 4327
0f9dfe04
L
4328* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4329
a39208bd
CD
4330* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4331 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 4332 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
4333 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4334 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 4335
a5357b7c
JL
4336* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4337 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4338
e54db0ea
AM
4339* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4340 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4341 format.
11e3417a 4342
4863355a
JM
4343* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4344 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4345 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4346
a4ecc9eb
JM
4347* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4348 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4349
0d560bbf 4350* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
4351
4352* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4353 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4354 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4355 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
4356
4357* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4358 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
4359
4360* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4361 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4362 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4363 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4364 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4365 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4366 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4367 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4368 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4369 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4370 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4371 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4372 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4373
4374 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4375 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4376 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4377 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4378 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 4379\f
d5b396c1
AM
4380Version 2.20
4381
4382* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4383
6a9350c8
JM
4384 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4385 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4386 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4387 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4388 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4389 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4390 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4391 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4392 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4393 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4394 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4395 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4396 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4397 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4398 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 4399
95ee7fb1
SL
4400* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4401 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4402 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4403 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4404 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 4405 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
4406 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4407 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4408 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4409 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4410
0961f7e1
JL
4411* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4412 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4413 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4414 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4415 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 4416
f940b965
RE
4417* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4418
d0f5b3f8
JM
4419* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4420 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4421
d6fe5e58
JM
4422* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4423 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4424 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4425 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4426 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4427 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4428
464263cc
JM
4429* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4430 from ports.
c941736c
JM
4431
4432* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4433 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4434 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4435 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4436 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4437 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4438 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
4439
4440* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
4441
4442* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4443 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4444 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4445 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4446 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4447 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4448 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
4449
4450* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4451 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4452 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4453 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4454 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
4455
4456* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4457 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4458 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
4459
4460* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4461 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4462 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4463 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
4464
4465* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4466 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4467 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4468 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4469 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4470 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4471 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4472 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
4473
4474* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4475 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4476 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4477 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4478 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4479 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4480 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4481 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4482 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
4483
4484* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4485 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4486 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4487 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4488 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 4489 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
4490
4491* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4492 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4493 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4494 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
4495\f
4496Version 2.19
4497
4498* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4499
fd2f9486
JM
4500 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4501 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4502 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4503 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4504 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4505 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4506 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4507 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4508 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4509 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
4510 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4511 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4512 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4513 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4514 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
4515 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4516 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4517 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 4518
11520a57
CD
4519* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4520 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4521
2fe16229
CD
4522* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4523 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4524 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
4525 extension which uses __block.
4526
303e567a
SP
4527* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4528 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4529 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4530 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4531 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4532
141f3a77
SP
4533* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4534 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4535 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4536 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4537 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
4538
4539* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4540 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4541 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4542 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4543 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
4544
4545* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4546 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4547 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4548
ba0d798c
WN
4549* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4550 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4551 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4552 #15856, #15857).
4553
7cbcdb36
SP
4554* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4555 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4556
82bab04b 4557* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 4558 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 4559
c5f840fd
MB
4560* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4561
3e181dda
CD
4562* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4563 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 4564
3e181dda 4565* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 4566
8a05c252
CL
4567* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4568
6055173a
JM
4569* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4570 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4571 for which the C library was built.
4572
b125d3e5
JM
4573* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4574 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4575 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4576 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4577 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4578 in the following circumstances:
4579
4580 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4581
4582 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4583 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4584
d4f66d37
JM
4585* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4586 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4587
3e181dda
CD
4588* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4589 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 4590
ffb89e53
AO
4591* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4592
5d29ccce
SP
4593* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4594 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4595
8b7d57cd 4596* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
4597
4598* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 4599
fd712ef3 4600* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 4601
c688b419
JM
4602* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4603 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4604 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4605 disable some of those declarations.
4606
7011c262 4607* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
4608 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4609 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
4610
4611* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4612 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
4613
4614* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4615 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4616 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4617 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4618 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4619 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4620 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4621 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4622 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4623 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4624 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4625 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4626 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
4627\f
4628Version 2.18
4629
4630* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4631
17db6e8d 4632 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
4633 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4634 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
4635 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4636 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4637 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4638 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4639 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4640 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4641 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4642 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4643 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4644 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4645 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
4646
4647* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4648 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4649 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4650 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4651 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4652 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 4653
5b535ac4
AS
4654* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4655 #15078).
4656
1cef1b19
AS
4657* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4658 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 4659
55e4107b
SP
4660* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4661 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4662 destructor calls to glibc.
4663
e5c74c63
SP
4664* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4665 output.
4666
4667* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4668 non-x86 architectures.
4669
e7521973
JM
4670* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4671
4672* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4673
4674* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4675 Richard Henderson.
4676
4677* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4678
4679* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4680 Richard Henderson.
4681
4682* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4683 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4684
8cfdb7e0
SP
4685* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4686
57267616
TS
4687* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4688 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 4689
c204ab28
SP
4690* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4691 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 4692
0748546f
PE
4693* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4694 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4695 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4696
61dd6208
SP
4697* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4698 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4699 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
4700
4701* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4702 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4703 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4704 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4705 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
4706
4707* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4708 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4709
4710* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
4711\f
4712Version 2.17
4713
4714* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4715
80ceeaee 4716 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
4717 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4718 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4719 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4720 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4721 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4722 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4723 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4724 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4725 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4726 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4727 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4728 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4729 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4730 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 4731
95b4f1b6
SE
4732* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4733
14bc93a9
JL
4734* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4735 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 4736
b54eb3cb
JM
4737* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4738 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4739
7e2bd01f
MS
4740* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4741
08f43f9b
AK
4742* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4743 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4744 zEnterprise z196.
4745 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4746
84b3fd84
FW
4747* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4748 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4749 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4750
815e6fa3
GB
4751* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4752 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4753
400726de
MK
4754* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4755 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4756
7aab07e4 4757* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 4758 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 4759
15d0da8c
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4760* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4761 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4762
3cc3ef96
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4763* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4764 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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4765 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4766 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 4767
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4768* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4769 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4770
85429b1a 4771* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 4772 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
4773 default.
4774
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4775* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4776 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4777 information in --help and --version output.
4778
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4779* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4780 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4781 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4782
89a3ad0b
AO
4783* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4784 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4785 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4786 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4787 when the mode is enabled.
4788
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4789* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4790 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4791 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4792 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4793 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4794 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4795 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 4796
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4797* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4798 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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4799\f
4800Version 2.16
4801
4802* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4803
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4804 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4805 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4806 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4807 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4808 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4809 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4810 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4811 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4812 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4813 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4814 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4815 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4816 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4817 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4818 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4819 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4820 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4821 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4822 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4823 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4824 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4825 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4826 14277, 14278.
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4828* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4829 configuring glibc with:
4830 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 4831 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
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4832 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4833
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4834* ISO C11 support:
4835
4836 + define static_assert
4837
4838 + do not declare gets
4839
4840 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4841
4842 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4843 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4844 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4845 implementation.
8d44e150 4846
74033a25 4847 + timespec_get added
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4848
4849 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 4850
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4851 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4852
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4853 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4854
9dc4e1fb 4855* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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4856
4857* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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4858
4859* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4860 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4861
4862* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4863 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4864
4865* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4866 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4867 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4868 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4869 existing applications.
ffb7875d 4870
21708942 4871* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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4872 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4873 before 2.6.
83678f76 4874
edb00e4d
RH
4875* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4876 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4877 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4878
83678f76 4879* New locales: mag_IN
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4880
4881* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4882 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4883 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4884 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4885 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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4886
4887* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4888
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4889* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4890 and Will Schmidt.
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4891
4892* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4893
4894* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4895 without a previously built glibc.
4896
4897* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4898 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4899
4900* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4901 now supported for ARM processors.
4902
4903* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4904 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4905 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4906
4907* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4908
4909* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4910 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4911 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4912 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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4913
4914* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4915 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4916 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4917 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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4918
4919* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4920 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4921 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4922 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4923 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4924
4925* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4926 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4927 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4928 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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e80fab37 4930Version 2.15
11988f8f 4931
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4932* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4933
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4934 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4935 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4936 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4937 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4938 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4939 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4940 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 4941
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4942* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4943 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
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4944
4945* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4946 and support for initgroups lookups.
4947 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4948
4949* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4950 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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4951
4952* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4953 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 4954
fc2ee42a
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4955* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4956 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 4957 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 4958
d42964a0 4959* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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4960 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4961
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4962* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4963 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
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4964 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4965
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4966* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4967 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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4968
4969* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4970 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4971
4972* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4973 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
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4974
4975* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4976 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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4977
4978* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4979 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4980
4981* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4982 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4983
4984* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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4985
4986* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4987 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 4988
f0b264f1
AZ
4989* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4990 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 4991
6b64057b 4992* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 4993\f
dded88cd 4994Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 4995
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4996* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4997
553149f6 4998 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 4999 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 5000 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 5001 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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5002 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5003 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5004 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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5005 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5006 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 5007 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 5008
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5009* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5010 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5011 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 5012 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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5013
5014 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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5015 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5016 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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5017 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5018
c6489db3 5019* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 5020 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 5021
72d1dddb 5022* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 5023 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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5024
5025* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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5026
5027* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5028 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5029
5030* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5031 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5032 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5033 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
9f94d2ea 5034\f
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5035Version 2.13
5036
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5037* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5038
c30b7ee2
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5039 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5040 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5041 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5042 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5043 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 5044
10b3bedc 5045* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 5046
ac2b484c 5047* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 5048
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5049* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5050 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 5051 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5053Version 2.12
5054
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5055* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5056
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5057 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5058 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5059 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5060 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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5061 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5062 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5063 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 5064 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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5065
5066* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 5067
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5068* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5069
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5070* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5071
5072* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5073 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5074 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5075
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5076* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5077 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5078 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5079 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5080 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5081
d36b9613 5082* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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5083\f
5084Version 2.11
5085
d36b9613
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5086* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5087
5088 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5089 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5090 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5091 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5092 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5093 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5094
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5095* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5096 mkostemps64
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5097 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5098
24ab9c76 5099* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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5100 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5101
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5102* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5103 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5104
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5105* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5106
0122f28e 5107* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 5108 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 5109 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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5110 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5111
9d36a6c4 5112 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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5113 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5114
9d36a6c4
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5115* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5116 strstr, strcasestr.
5117 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5118
5119* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5120 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5121
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5122* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5123 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5124
5125* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5126 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5127
5128* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5129 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5130 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5131 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5132 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5133 necessity is every process again.
5134 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5135
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5136* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5137 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5138
5139* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5140 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5141
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5142* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5143 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5144 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5145
9dd5b8a1 5146* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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5147\f
5148Version 2.10
5149
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5150* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5151
5152 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5153 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5154 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5155 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5156 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5157
bb066545 5158* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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5159 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5160
425ce2ed 5161* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 5162 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 5163
1fdd89a7 5164* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 5165 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
1fdd89a7 5166
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5167* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5168 now in POSIX.
77db439e 5169
1f04d005 5170* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 5171 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 5172
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5173* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5174 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5175
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5176* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5177 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5178
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5179* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5180 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5181
5182* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5183 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5184 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5185
735be400 5186* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 5187
84aa52d7 5188* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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5189 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5190
5191* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5192 and extend existing format specifiers.
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5193 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5194
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5195* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5196 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5197
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5198* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5199 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5200 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5201 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5202 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5203 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5205Version 2.9
5206
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5208
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5210 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5211 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5212 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5213 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
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5216 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5217
5218* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5219 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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5221* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5222 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5224* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5225 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5226 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5227
5228* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5229 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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5233* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 5234 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5236* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5237 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5238 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5239 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5240
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5241* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5242 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5244* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5245 Sinhala)
48b22986 5246 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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5248* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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5250Version 2.8
5251
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5253
5254 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5255 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5256 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5257 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5258 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5259 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5260 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5261
e038616f 5262* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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5266* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5267 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5268
5269* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5270
5271* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5272 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5273
5274* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5275 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5276
5277* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5278 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5279 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5280
5281* Faster memset for x86-64.
5282 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5283
5284* Faster memcpy on x86.
5285 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5286
5287* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5288 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5290* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 5291 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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5294
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5296
5297 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5298 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5299 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5300 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5301 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5302
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5303* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5304 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5305
5306* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5307
5308* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5309 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5310 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5311
5312* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5313 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5314
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5316 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5317
5318* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5319
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5320* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5321 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5322
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5323* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5324 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5325
5326* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5327 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5328
5329* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5330
5331* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5332 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5334* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5335 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5336 yo_NG.
5337
5338+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5339 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5344
5345 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5346 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5347 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5348 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5349 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5350 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5351 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5352 4702, 4858
5353
bce20b9a 5354* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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5356* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5357
b21fa963 5358* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5361
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5362* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5363
5364 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5365 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5366 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5367 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5368 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5369 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5370 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5371 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5372 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5373
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5375 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5376 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5378* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5379 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5380
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5382
5383* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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5385* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5386 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5387 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 5388 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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5389 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5390
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5392 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5393 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5394 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5395
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5396* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5397 Ulrich Drepper.
5398
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5399* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5400
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5401* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5402 Ulrich Drepper.
5403
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5404* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5405
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5406* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5407 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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5409Version 2.4
5410
5411* More overflow detection functions.
5412
5413* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5414 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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5416 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5417 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5418 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5419 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5420 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5421 by Masahide Washizawa.
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5423* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5424 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5426* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5427 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5428 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5429 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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5431* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5432 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5433
5434* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5435
5436* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5437 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5438 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5439
5440* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5441 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5442
5443* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5444 for compatibility with some other systems.
5445
5446* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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5448Version 2.3.6
5449
5450* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5451
5452 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5453 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5454 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5455 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5456 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5457 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5458
5a82c748 5459 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5461* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5462
5463* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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5465Version 2.3.5
5466
5467* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5468
5469 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5470 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5471 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5472 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5473
5a82c748 5474 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5476Version 2.3.4
5477
5478* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5479 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5480
5481* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5482 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5483 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5484
5485* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5486 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5487
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5489 efficiently.
5490 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5491
5492* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5493 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5494 handling data.
5495
5496* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5497 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 5498 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5500* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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5501 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5502
5503* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5504 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5505 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5506 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5507
5508* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5509 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5510 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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5511 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5512
5513* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5514 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5515 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5516 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5517 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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5519Version 2.3.3
5520
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5521* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5522 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5523
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5524* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5525 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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5528 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5529
5530* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5531 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5533* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5534 by Roland McGrath.
5535
c5af724c 5536* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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5537 and Ulrich Drepper.
5538
5539* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5540 RFC 3484.
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5542Version 2.3.2
5543
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5544* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5545 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5546 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5547 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5548 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5549 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5550 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5551 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5552 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5553
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5554* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5555 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5556 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5557
5558* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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5559
5560* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5561 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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5563* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5564 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5565
52a16e58 5566* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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5568* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5569 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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5571* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5572 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5573 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5574 of weak definition in ld.so.
5575
5576* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5577 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5578
5579* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5580 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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5584* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5585 charsets.
5586
5587* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5588 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 5590* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 5591 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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5593* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5594 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 5595
bb0ec5bd 5596* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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5597 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5598 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5600* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5601 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 5602
bb0ec5bd 5603* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 5604 implementation of regex.
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5605
5606* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5607 Unicode 3.2.
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5609* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5610 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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5612* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5613 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5614 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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5616* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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5618
5619* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5620 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5621 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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5623* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5624 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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5625
5626* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5627 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5628 and Ulrich Drepper.
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5629
5630* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
5631\f
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5632Version 2.2.6
5633
5634* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5635 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5636
5637* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5638 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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5640Version 2.2.5
5641
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5642* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5643 128-bit long double format.
a8ae31c2 5644
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5645* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5646 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 5647
ad2e4f18 5648* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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5650* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5651
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5652* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5653 as well.
5654
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5655* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5656 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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5657
5658* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
7d0c5823 5659\f
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5660Version 2.2.4
5661
2995f70e 5662* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 5663 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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5664
5665* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5666 support Unicode 3.1.
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5667
5668* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5669 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 5670
69d5f925 5671* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 5672
69d5f925 5673* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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5674 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5675 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5676
5677* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5678 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5679
5680* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5681 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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5682
5683* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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5685Version 2.2.3
5686
1746f2b0 5687* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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5688 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5689 in float, double, and long double format.
5690
f128331c 5691* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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5692 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5693 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 5694
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5695* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5696 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5697 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5698 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5699
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5700* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5701 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5702 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5703
5704* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5705 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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5706
5707* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5708 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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5709
5710* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5711 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5712 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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5713
5714* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5715 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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5717* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5718 of functions for Linux/x86.
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5719
5720* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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5722Version 2.2.2
5723
464d97ec 5724* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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5725 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5726 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5727 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5728 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5729 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5730 other headers.
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5731
5732* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5733 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5734
5735* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5736 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5737 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5738 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5739
5740* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5741 locales. While
5742
5743 locale -a
5744
5745 only lists the names of the supported locales
5746
5747 locale -a --verbose
5748
5749 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5750 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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5752Version 2.2.1
5753
5754* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5755 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5756 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5757 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5758 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5759
5760 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5761
5762 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5763
5764 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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5765
5766* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5767 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5768 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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5769
5770* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5771 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5772
5773* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5774 changed from the default "C" locale.
5775
5776* The usual bug fixes.
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5778Version 2.2
5779
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5780* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5781 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5782 is in progress.
5783
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5784* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5785
793bd4d9 5786* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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5788 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5789 obviously requires a database library being available.
5790
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5791* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5792
abbffdf9 5793* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 5794
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5795* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5796 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5797
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5798* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5799
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5800* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5801 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5802 and Mark Kettenis.
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5803
5804 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5805 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5806 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 5807
a00c3ca9 5808 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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5809 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5810
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5811* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5812 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5813 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5814
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5815* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5816 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5817 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5818 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5819
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5820 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5821 structures for the wide character tables.
5822
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5823* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5824
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5825* The utmp daemon has been removed.
5826
5827* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5828
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5829* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5830 and Yutaka Niibe.
5831
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5832* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5833
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5834* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5835
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5836* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5837
5838* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5839
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5840* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5841
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5842* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5843 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5844 implemented for Linux.
5845
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5846* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5847 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5848 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5849 versions.
5850
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5851* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5852 Masahide Washizawa.
5853
8f3f1e09 5854* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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5855\f
5856Version 2.1.3
5857
5858* bug fixes
5859
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5861Version 2.1.2
5862
5863* bug fixes
5864
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5866Version 2.1.1
5867
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5868* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5869
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5870* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5871
407d26b7 5872* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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5873
5874* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5875
407d26b7 5876* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 5877
407d26b7 5878* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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5879
5880* Update timezone data files.
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5882* lots of charmaps corrections
5883
5884* some new locale definitions and charmaps
5885
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5887Version 2.1
5888
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5889* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5890 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5891 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5892 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5893 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5894 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5895
c84142e8 5896* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 5897 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 5898
1fb05e3d 5899* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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5900 symbol level.
5901
5902* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5903 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 5904
cbdee279 5905* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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5906
5907* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 5908 numbers.
377a515b 5909
cbdee279 5910* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 5911
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5912* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5913 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 5914
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5915* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5916 library.
5917
e61abf83 5918* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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5919 functions from ISO C 9X.
5920
5921* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5922 real valued functions.
e61abf83 5923
a5a0310d 5924* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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5926* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5927
5928* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 5929
440d13e2 5930* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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5931
5932* Optimized string functions have been added.
5933
5934* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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5935
5936* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5938* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5939 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5940
5941 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5942 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5943
0dee6738 5944 user system wall
48244d09 5945
0dee6738 5946 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 5947
0dee6738 5948 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 5949
0dee6738 5950 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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5952 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5953
5954 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5955
5956 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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5959 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 5960 horribly slow.
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5962 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5963 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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5965* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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5966
5967* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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5968
5969* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5970 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5971
5972* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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5974* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5975 Bambrough.
5976
5977* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5978 latest draft standards.
5979
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5980* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5981
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5982* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5983~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5986argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5987argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5988argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5989argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5990argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5991argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5992argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5993argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5994argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5995argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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5996authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5997authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5998authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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5999backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6000backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6001backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6002cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
6003cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6004cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6005cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6006cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6007cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6008capget NEW: kernel
6009capset NEW: kernel
6010carg NEW: ISO C 9x
6011cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
6012cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
6013casin NEW: ISO C 9x
6014casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6015casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6016casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6017casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6018casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6019catan NEW: ISO C 9x
6020catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6021catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6022catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6023catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6024catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6027ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6028ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6029ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6030ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6031ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6032cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
6033cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
6034cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
6035cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
6036cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6037cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6038clearerr_locked REMOVED
6039clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6040clog NEW: ISO C 9x
6041clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6042clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6043clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6044clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
6045clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
6046conj NEW: ISO C 9x
6047conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
6048conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
6049cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
6050cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
6051cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
6052cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
6053cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6054cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6055creal NEW: ISO C 9x
6056crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6057creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6058creat64 NEW: LFS
6059csin NEW: ISO C 9x
6060csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6061csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6062csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6063csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6064csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6065csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
6066csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6067csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6068ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
6069ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6070ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6071ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6072ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6073ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6074des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6075ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6076endutxent NEW: Unix98
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6077exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6078exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6079exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6080exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6081exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6082exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6083fattach NEW: STREAMS
6084fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6085fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
6086fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
6087fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
6088feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6089fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6090fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6091fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6092feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6093feof_locked REMOVED
6094feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6095ferror_locked REMOVED
6096fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6097fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6098fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6099fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6100feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6101fflush_locked REMOVED
6102ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
6103ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
6104fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
6105fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6106fileno_locked REMOVED
6107fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6108fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6109fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6110fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6111fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6112fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6113fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6114fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6115fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 6116fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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6117fopen64 NEW: LFS
6118fputc_locked REMOVED
6119fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6120fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6121freopen64 NEW: LFS
6122fseeko NEW: Unix98
6123fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
6124fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
6125fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6126fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
6127ftello NEW: Unix98
6128ftello64 NEW: LFS
6129ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6130ftw64 NEW: LFS
6131fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6132gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6133gamma_r REMOVED
6134gammaf_r REMOVED
6135gammal_r REMOVED
6136getchar_locked REMOVED
6137getdate NEW: Unix98
6138getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6139getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6140getmsg NEW: STREAMS
6141getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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6144getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6145getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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6147getutxid NEW: Unix98
6148getutxline NEW: Unix98
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6149glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6150globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6151gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6152gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6153grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
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6155iconv NEW: iconv
6156iconv_close NEW: iconv
6157iconv_open NEW: iconv
6158if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6159if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6160if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6161if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6162in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6163in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6164inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6165isastream NEW: STREAMS
6166iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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6167key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6168key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6169key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6170key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6171key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6172key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6173key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6174key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6175key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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6176llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6177llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6178llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6179llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6180llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6181llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6182log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6183log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6184log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6185lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6186lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6187lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6188lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6189lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6190lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6191lseek64 NEW: LFS
6192makecontext NEW: Unix98
6193mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6194mmap64 NEW: LFS
6195moncontrol REMOVED
6196modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6197nan NEW: ISO C 9x
6198nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6199nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6200nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6201nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6202nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6203netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6204netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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6205nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6206nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6207nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6208nftw NEW: Unix98
6209nftw64 NEW: LFS
6210open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 6211passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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6212pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
6213pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6214pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6215pread NEW: Unix98
6216pread64 NEW: LFS
6217printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6218printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6219profil_counter REMOVED
6220pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6221pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6222ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6223ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6224putc_locked REMOVED
6225putchar_locked REMOVED
6226putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6227putmsg NEW: STREAMS
6228putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 6229pututxline NEW: Unix98
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6230pwrite NEW: Unix98
6231pwrite64 NEW: LFS
6232readdir64 NEW: LFS
6233readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6234remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6235remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6236remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6237round NEW: ISO C 9x
6238roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6239roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6240rtime NEW: GNU ext.
6241scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6242scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6243scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6244scandir64 NEW: LFS
6245sendfile NEW: kernel
6246setcontext NEW: Unix98
6247setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 6248setutxent NEW: Unix98
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6249sighold NEW: Unix98
6250sigignore NEW: Unix98
6251sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6252sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6253sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6254sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6255sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6256sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6257sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6258sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6259statfs64 NEW: LFS
6260statvfs NEW: Unix98
6261statvfs64 NEW: LFS
6262strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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6263strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6264strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6265strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 6266svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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6267svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6268svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6269swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6270tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6271tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6272tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6273tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6274tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6275tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
6276trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
6277truncate64 NEW: LFS
6278truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6279truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6280umount2 NEW: kernel
6281unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 6282updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 6283user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6284utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 6285versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 6286versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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6287waitid NEW: Unix98
6288wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6289wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6290wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6291wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6292wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6293wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6294wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6295wcswcs NEW: Unix98
6296wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6297wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6298write_profiling REMOVED
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6299xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6300xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6301xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6302xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6303xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6304xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6305xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6306xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6307xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6308xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6309xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6310xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6311xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 6312xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 6313xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 6314~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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6316Version 2.0.6
6317
6318* more bug fixes
6319
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6321Version 2.0.5
6322
6323* more bug fixes
6324
6325* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6326
6327* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6328
6329* rewrite of cbrt function
6330
6331* update of timezone data
6332\f
6333Version 2.0.4
6334
6335* more bug fixes
6336\f
6337Version 2.0.3
6338
6339* more bug fixes
c84142e8 6340\f
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6341Version 2.0.2
6342
6343* more bug fixes
6344
6345* add atoll function
6346
6347* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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6348
6349* fix math functions
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6351Version 2.0.1
6352
6353* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6354
6355* dynamic loader preserves all registers
6356
6357* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6358 the ELF dynamic loader.
6359
6360* support for parallel builds is improved
6361\f
40a4b79f 6362Version 2.0
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6364* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6365 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6366 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
6367
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6368* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6369 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6370 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6371 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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6372 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6373 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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6374 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6375 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6376 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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6377 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6378 files in the ELF format.
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6379
6380* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6381 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6382
6383* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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6384 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6385 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6386 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6387 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6388 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6389 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6390 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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6391 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6392 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6393 about dynamically linked binaries.
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6395* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6396 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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6397 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6398 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6399 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 6400
f7eac6eb 6401* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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6402 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6403 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6404 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6405 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6406
6407* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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6409* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6410 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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6411 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6412 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6413 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6414 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6415 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6416 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6417 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 6418
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6419* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6420 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6421 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6422
6423* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6424 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6425 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6426
6427* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6428 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6429 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6430 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6431
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6432* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6433 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6434 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6435
6436* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6437 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6438 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6439
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6440* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6441 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6442
f7eac6eb 6443* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 6444 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 6445 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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6446 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6447
6448* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6449 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6450 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 6451
71733723 6452* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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6453 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6454 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6455 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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6456 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6457 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 6458 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 6459 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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6460
6461* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6462 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6463 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6464 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6465 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6466 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6467 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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6468
6469* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6470 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6471 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6472 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6473 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6474 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6475
6476* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6477 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6478
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6479* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6480 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6481 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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6483* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6484
6485* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6486 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6487 their use is discouraged.
6488
6489* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6490 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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6492* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6493 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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6494
6495* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6496 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6497
6498* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6499 see <dirent.h>.
6500
6501* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6502 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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6503 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6504 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6505 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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6506
6507* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6508 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6509 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6510 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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6511
6512* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6513 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6514
6515* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6516 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6517 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6518 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6519 number generator.
6520
6521* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6522 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6523
6524* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6525 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6526
71733723 6527* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 6528 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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6529 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6530 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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6532* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6533
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6534* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6535 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6536 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6537
6538* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6539 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 6541* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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6542 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6543 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6544 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6545
6546* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6547 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6548 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6549 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6550 programs already written to use it.)
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6551
6552* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6553 constants.
6554
6555* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6556 with 4.4 BSD.
6557
6558* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6559 a given effective group ID.
6560
6561* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6562 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6563 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6564 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6565
6566* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 6567 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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6568 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6569 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6570 doing the same thing.
6571
6572* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6573 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6574
6575* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 6576 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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6577
6578* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6579
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6580* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6581 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6582 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 6583 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 6584 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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6585
6586* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6587 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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6588
6589* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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6590 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6591 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6592 function.
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6593
6594* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6595
6596* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6597 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6598 strings.
6599
6600* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6601 and writing the utmp file.
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6602
6603* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6604 Thorsten Kukuk.
6605
6606* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6607 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6608 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6609
6610* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6611 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6612
6613* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6614 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6615 specification.
6616
6617* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6618 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6619 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6620 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6621
6622* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6623 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6624 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6625
6626* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6627 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6628 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6629 expression matcher.
6630
6631* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6632 functionality.
6633
6634* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6635 by Ulrich Drepper.
6636
6637* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6638
6639* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6640 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6641 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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6643Version 1.09
6644
6645* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6646
6647* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6648 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6649
6650* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6651 want to put themselves in the background.
6652
6653* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6654 run without an operating system.
6655
6656* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6657 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6658
6659* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6660 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6661
6662* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6663
6664* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6665 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6666 have YP (aka NIS).
6667
6668* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6669 conventions.
6670
6671* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6672 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6673\f
6674Version 1.08
6675
6676* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6677 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6678 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6679
6680* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6681 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6682
6683* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6684 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6685
6686* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6687
6688* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6689
6690* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6691 compatibility.
6692
6693* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6694 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6695 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6696
6697* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6698
6699* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6700 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6701 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6702
6703* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6704 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6705 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6706 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6707 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6708 on a block).
6709
6710* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6711 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6712 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6713 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6714 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6715 cross-compiler.
6716
6717* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6718 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6719\f
6720Version 1.07
6721
6722* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6723 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6724
6725* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6726 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6727 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6728
6729* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6730 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6731 address of the last character written.
6732
6733* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6734 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6735
6736* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6737 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6738
6739* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6740 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6741 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6742 you dereference this pointer.
6743
6744* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6745 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6746
6747* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6748 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6749 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6750 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6751
6752* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6753 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6754 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6755 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6756\f
6757Version 1.06
6758
6759* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6760 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6761 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6762 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 6763 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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6764
6765* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6766
6767* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6768
6769* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6770 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6771
6772* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6773 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6774
6775* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6776 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6777
6778* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6779 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6780 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6781 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6782 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6783
6784* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6785 to the error code in `errno'.
6786
6787* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6788 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6789 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6790 malloc'd string.
6791
6792* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6793 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6794 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6795
6796* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6797 uniquely-named temporary file.
6798\f
6799Version 1.05
6800
6801* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6802 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6803 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6804
6805* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6806 characters.
6807
6808* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6809 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6810
6811* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6812\f
6813Version 1.04
6814
6815* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6816 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6817 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6818 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6819
6820* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6821 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6822 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6823
6824* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6825 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6826
6827* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6828 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6829 made itself into a shared library.
6830
6831* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6832 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6833
6834* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6835 with limited length.
6836
6837* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6838
6839* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6840
6841* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6842
6843* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6844 function for traversing a directory tree.
6845
6846* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6847 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6848 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6849 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6850
6851* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6852 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6853
6854* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6855
6856* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6857 things to your strings.
6858
6859* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6860
6861* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6862 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6863 supporting those systems.
6864
6865* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6866 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6867 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6868 configuration files.
6869
6870* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6871 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6872
6873* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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6874 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6875 in <strings.h>.)
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6876
6877* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6878 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6879 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6880 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6881 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6882 required storage is not available.
6883
6884* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6885 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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6886
6887* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6888 latest files released from Berkeley.
6889\f
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6892
6893 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
6894 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
6895 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
6896 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
6897
6898 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
6899 of this document, or of portions of it,
6900 under the above conditions, provided also that they
6901 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
6902\f
6903Local variables:
6904version-control: never
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