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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
04277e02 2Copyright (C) 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
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8Version 2.31
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10Major new features:
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12* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
13 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
14 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
15 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
16 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
17 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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19* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
20 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
21 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
22 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
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24* The gettimeofday function will no longer report information about a
25 system-wide time zone, expect for aarch64, powerpc, and x86 on Linux
26 which still uses the vDSO symbol (when available).
27
28 This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for many years, as it cannot
29 handle the full complexity of the world's timezones, but hitherto we have
30 supported it on a best-effort basis. Changes required to support 64-bit
31 time_t on 32-bit architectures have made this no longer practical.
32
33 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
34 will always receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
35 tz_dsttime fields are zero.
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37* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
38 terminated thread with an specific clock. It allows waiting against
39 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
40
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41Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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43* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
44 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
45 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
46 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
47 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
48 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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50* The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
51 binaries and it has been removed from <time.h> header. This function
52 has been deprecated in favor of clock_settime.
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54* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
55 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
56 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
57 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
58 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
59
60 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
61 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
62 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
63 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
64
65 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
66 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
67 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
68 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
69 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
70 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
71
72 Note that settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX.
73 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime and/or
74 the adjtime family of functions instead. We may also cease to make
75 settimeofday available to newly linked binaries after there is a
76 replacement for Linux's time-zone-like offset API.
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78* The obsolete functions ftime has been deprecated and will be removed from
79 a future version of glibc. Application should use clock_gettime instead.
80
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81Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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83 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
84
85Security related changes:
86
87 [Add security related changes here]
88
89The following bugs are resolved with this release:
90
91 [The release manager will add the list generated by
92 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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95Version 2.30
96
97Major new features:
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99* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
100 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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101 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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103* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
104 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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106* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
107 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
108 to the callback function.
109
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112* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
113 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
114 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
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116* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
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118* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
119 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
120 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
121 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
122 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
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124* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
125 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
126 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
127 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
128 link time reference, is gone.
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130* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
131 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
132 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
133 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
134 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
135 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
136 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
137 the clock choice at initialization time).
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139* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
140 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
141 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
142
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143Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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145* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
146 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
147 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
148 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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149 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
150 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
151 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
152 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
153 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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155* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
156 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
157 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
158 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
159 since glibc 2.17.
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161* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
162 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
163
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164* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
165 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
166
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167* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
168 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
169
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170* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
171 BIND_NOW flag.
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173* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
174 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
175 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
176
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177* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
178 header have been removed.
179
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180* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
181 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
182 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
183 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
184
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185Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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187* GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
188
189 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
190 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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192Security related changes:
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194 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
195 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
196 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
197 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
198 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
199 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
200 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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202 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
203 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
204 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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208 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
209 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
210 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
211 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
212 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
213 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
214 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
215 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
216 invalid input drops valid char
217 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
218 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
219 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
220 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
221 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
222 malloc.h.
223 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
224 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
225 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
226 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
227 functions
228 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
229 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
230 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
231 for long double = double
232 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
233 long double = double
234 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
235 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
236 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
237 long timeouts
238 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar ouput to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
239 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
240 checking for NULL.
241 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
242 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
243 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
244 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
245 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
246 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
247 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
248 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
249 not the default "nor"
250 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
251 false positives, change to modern flexible array
252 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
253 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
254 compiler barriers.
255 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
256 unnecessary librt dependencies
257 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
258 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
259 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
260 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
261 unsorted chunk
262 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
263 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
264 to R_SPARC_H44
265 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
266 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
267 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
268 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
269 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
270 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
271 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
272 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
273 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
274 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
275 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
276 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
277 was not used
278 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
279 tests
280 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
281 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
282 time_t changes
283 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
284 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
285 kernels and break testing
286 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
287 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
288 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
289 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
290 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
291 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
292 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
293 -O3 -march=skylake
294 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
295 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
296 crash
297 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
298 linked glibc
299 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
300 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
301 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
302 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
303 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
304 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
305 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
306 always implemented in the same library
307 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
308 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
309 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
310 testroot
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315Major new features:
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317* The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
318 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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320* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
321 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
322 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
323 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
324 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
325 configured location.
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424c4f60 327* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
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329* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
330 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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332* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
333 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
334 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
335 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
336 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
337 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
338 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
339 process actually does not use HTM).
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342 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
343 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
344 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
345 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
346 of the same name.
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348* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
349 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
350 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 351 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
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352 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
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354* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
355 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
356 supported:
357 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
358 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
359
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360* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
361 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
362 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
363 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
364 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
365 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
366 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
367
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368* As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
369 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
370 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
371
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372Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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374* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
375 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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377* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
378 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
379 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
380 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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382* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
383 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
384 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
385 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
386 structures.
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388* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
389 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
390 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
391 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
392 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
393 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
394
395 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
396 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
397 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
398 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
399 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
400
401 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
402 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
403 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
404
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406
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409* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
410 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
411
412 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
413 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
414
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417 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
418 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
419 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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422 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
423 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
424 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
425 Reported by H.J. Lu.
426
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427 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
428 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
429 or command injection issues in applications.
430
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431The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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433 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
434 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
435 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
436 thousands
437 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
438 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
439 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
440 --param options)
441 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
442 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
443 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
444 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
445 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
446 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
447 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
448 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
449 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
450 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
451 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
452 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
453 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
454 pointer argument is non-NULL
455 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
456 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
457 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
458 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
459 multithreads call popen
460 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
461 and pthread_create fails.
462 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
463 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
464 constructor
465 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
466 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
467 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
468 source tree
469 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
470 float
471 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
472 one error
473 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
474 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
475 linker
476 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
477 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
478 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
479 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
480 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
481 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
482 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
483 filesystems
484 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
485 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
486 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
487 functions
488 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
489 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
490 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
491 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
492 have wrong type
493 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
494 wrong type
495 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
496 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
497 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
498 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
499 threads
500 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
501 start.S
502 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
503 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
504 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
505 powerpc64le
506 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
507 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
508 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
509 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
510 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
511 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
512 strftime
513 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
514 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
515 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
516 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
517 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
518 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
519 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
520 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
521 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
522 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
523 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
524 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
525 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
526 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
527 tcache size
528 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
529 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
530 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
531 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
532 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
533 (CVE-2018-19591)
534 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
535 nearest rounding mode
536 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
537 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
538 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
539 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
540 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
541 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
542 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
543 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
544 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
545 error
546 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
547 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
548 using GCC 8
549 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
550 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
551 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
552 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
553 ppc64le
554 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
555 expected result
556 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
557 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
558 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
559 sigaltstack
560 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
561 answers will be rejected)
562 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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567Major new features:
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569* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
570 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
571 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
572 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
573 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
574 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
575 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
576 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
577 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
578 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
579 archive or binary locales.
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582 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
583 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
584 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
585 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
586 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
587 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
588 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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590 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
591 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
592 validated for i686.
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595 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
596 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
597 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
598 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
599 field) to indicate such support is required.
600
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601* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
602 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
603 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
604
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605* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
606 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
607
608 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
609 fMxaddfNx functions.
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611 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
612 fMxsubfNx functions.
613
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614 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
615 fMxmulfNx functions.
616
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617 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
618 fMxdivfNx functions.
619
e607a352 620* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 621 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 622 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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624 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 626* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 627 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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629* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
630 patches.
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632* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
633 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
634 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
635 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
636 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
637 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
638 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
639 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
640
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641* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
642 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
643 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
644 the fstatat64 function.
645
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646* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
647 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
648 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
649 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
650 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
651 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
652 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
653 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
654 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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656* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
657 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
658 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
659 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
660 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
661 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
662 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
663 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
664 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
665 results in a load failure now.
666
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668 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
669 <threads.h>:
670
671 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
672 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
673
674 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
675 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
676
677 - call_once for function call synchronization.
678
679 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
680 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
681
682 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
683
684 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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687
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688* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
689 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
690 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
691
692* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
693 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
694 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
695 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
696 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
697 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
698
699* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
700 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
701 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
702 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
703 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
704 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
705 (Bug #1190.)
706
707* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
708 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
709 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
710 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
711 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
712 further explanation.
713
714 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
715 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
716 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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718* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
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720* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
721 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
722 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
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724* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
725 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
726 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
727 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
728
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729* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
730 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
731 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
732 for this function instead.
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734* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
735 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
736 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
737
738* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
739 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
740 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
741 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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743* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
744 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
745 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
746 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
747 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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749* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
750 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
751 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
752 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
753 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
754 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
755 such as libgcrypt.
756
757* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
758 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
759 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
760 enabled.
761
762* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
763 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
764 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
765
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766* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
767 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
768 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
769 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
770 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
771 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
772
773 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
774 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
775 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
776 behavior in a future release.
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779
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782Security related changes:
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784 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
785 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
786 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
787 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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789 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
790 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
791
792 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
793 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
794 Izbyshev.
795
796 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
797 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
798 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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802 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
803 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
804 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
805 when __WORDSIZE != 64
806 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
807 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
808 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
809 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
810 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
811 14651
812 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
813 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
814 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
815 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
816 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
817 conversion is given
818 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
819 date
820 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
821 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
822 scope with -O1 and higher
823 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
824 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
825 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
826 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
827 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
828 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
829 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
830 horrible machine code)
831 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
832 last constant.
833 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
834 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
835 symbols
836 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
837 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
838 defined
839 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
840 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
841 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
842 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
843 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
844 fpscr.c'
845 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
846 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
847 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
848 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
849 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
850 the base address
851 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
852 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
853 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
854 open_verify
855 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
856 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
857 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
858 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
859 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
860 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
861 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
862 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
863 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
864 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
865 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
866 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
867 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
868 dlopen
869 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
870 AT_SECURE=1
871 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
872 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
873 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
874 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
875 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
876 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
877 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
878 for Spanish with CLDR
879 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
880 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
881 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
882 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
883 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
884 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
885 es_BO
886 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
887 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
888 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
889 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
890 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
891 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
892 dlopen failures
893 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
894 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
895 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
896 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
897 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
898 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
899 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
900 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
901 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
902 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
903 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
904 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
905 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
906 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
907 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
908 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
909 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
910 makecontext
911 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
912 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
913 required
914 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
915 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
916 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
917 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
918 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
919 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
920 disabled
921 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
922 failure
923 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
924 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
925 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
926 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
927 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
928 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
929 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
930 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
931 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
932 and libc build with -Os)
933 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
934 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
935 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
936 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
937 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
938 that changes /etc/passwd
939 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
940 (CVE-2018-11237)
941 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
942 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
943 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
944 posix/regcomp.c
945 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
946 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
947 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
948 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
949 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
950 AT_SECURE
951 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
952 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
953 parser.c
954 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
955 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
956 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
957 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
958 directed rounding
959 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
960 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
961 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
962 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
963 lookup
964 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
965 interposition
966 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
967 DSO boundaries.
968 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
969 <linux/time.h>
970 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
971 checking
972 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
973 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
974 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
975 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
976 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
977 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
978 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
979 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
980 processors
981 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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984Version 2.27
985
986Major new features:
987
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988* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
989 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 990 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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991 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
992 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
993 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
994 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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995 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
996 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 997
ac817e08 998* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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999 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1000 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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1002* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
1003
4cf82d23 1004* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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1006* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1007 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1008 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1009 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1010 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1011 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1012 from a security and performance perspective.
1013
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1014* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1015 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1016 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1017 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1018
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1020 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
1021 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1022 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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1023 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1024
a23aa5b7 1025* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 1026 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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1027 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1028 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1029 _Float128.
1030
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1031* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1032 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1033 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 1034
4bab0224 1035* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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1037* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1038 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1039 pkey_get.
1040
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1041* The copy_file_range function was added.
1042
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1043* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1044
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1045* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1046 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1047 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
1048
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1050 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1051 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1052 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1053 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1054 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1055 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1056
1057 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1058 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1059 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1060 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1061 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1062 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1063 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1064
1065 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1066 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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1067 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1068 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1069 respectively.
1070
1071 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1072 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1073 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1074 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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1076 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1077 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1078 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1079
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1080 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
1081 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 1082 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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1085 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1086 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1087
1088 - rv64imac lp64
1089 - rv64imafdc lp64
1090 - rv64imafdc lp64d
1091
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1092Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1093
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1094* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1095 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 1096 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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1097 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1098 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1099 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1100 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1101 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1102 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1103 fix this.
1104
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1105* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1106 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1107 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1108
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1109* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1110 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1111 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1112 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1113 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1114 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1115 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1116 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1117 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1118 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1119 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1120 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1121 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1122 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1123 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1124 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1125 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1126 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1127 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1128 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1129 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1130 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1131 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1132 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1133 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1134 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
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1137 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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1139* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1140 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1141 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1142 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1143 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1144 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1145 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1146
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1147* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1148 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1149 exp10l for these functions instead.
1150
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1151* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1152 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1153 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1154
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1155* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1156 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1157 ignored.
1158
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1159* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1160 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1161 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1162 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1163
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1164* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1165 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1166
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1167* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1168 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
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1170* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1171 programs.
1172
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1173* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1174
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1175* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1176 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1177 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1178 instead.
1179
1180 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1181 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1182 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1183 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1184 use, but predates the bits convention.
1185
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1187
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1188* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1189 subdirectory.
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1191Security related changes:
1192
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1193 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1194 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1195 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1196 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1197 script.)
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1199 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1200 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1201 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1202 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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1204 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1205 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1206 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1207 of service.
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1209 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1210 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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1211 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1212
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1213 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1214 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1215 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1216 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1217
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1218 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1219 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1220 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1221 Qualys.
1222
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1223 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1224 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1225 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1226 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1227 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1228
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1229 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1230 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1231 current directory.
1232
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1233 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1234 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1235 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1236
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1237 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1238 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1239 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1240
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1241 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1242 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1243 small, instead of NULL.
1244
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1246
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1247 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1248 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1249 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1250 locale
1251 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1252 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1253 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1254 cases
1255 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1256 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1257 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1258 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1259 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1260 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1261 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1262 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1263 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1264 "Bangla"
1265 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1266 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1267 width Latin characters
1268 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1269 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1270 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1271 letters
1272 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1273 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1274 (CVE-2009-5064)
1275 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1276 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1277 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1278 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1279 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1280 if malloc succeeded
1281 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1282 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1283 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1284 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1285 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1286 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1287 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1288 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1289 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1290 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1291 U+309A
1292 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1293 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1294 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1295 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1296 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1297 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1298 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1299 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1300 for Nicaragua
1301 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1302 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1303 are not found.
1304 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1305 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1306 access
1307 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1308 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1309 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1310 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1311 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1312 __regcall calling convention
1313 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1314 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1315 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1316 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1317 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1318 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1319 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1320 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1321 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1322 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1323 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1324 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1325 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1326 locale
1327 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1328 protector=all
1329 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1330 wcwidth
1331 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
1332 consistency check failures
1333 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
1334 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
1335 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
1336 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
1337 PIE
1338 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
1339 locales
1340 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
1341 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
1342 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
1343 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
1344 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
1345 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
1346 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
1347 on memory allocation failure
1348 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
1349 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
1350 the suspect)
1351 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
1352 default (i386)
1353 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
1354 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
1355 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
1356 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
1357 instead of EAI_NODATA
1358 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
1359 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
1360 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
1361 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
1362 implementation
1363 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
1364 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
1365 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
1366 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
1367 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
1368 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
1369 allocation in syscall loops)
1370 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
1371 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
1372 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
1373 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
1374 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
1375 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
1376 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
1377 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
1378 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
1379 occur with -O3
1380 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
1381 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1382 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
1383 amounts)
1384 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
1385 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
1386 niu_NZ
1387 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
1388 checks
1389 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
1390 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
1391 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
1392 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
1393 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
1394 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
1395 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
1396 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
1397 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
1398 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
1399 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
1400 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
1401 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
1402 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
1403 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
1404 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
1405 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
1406 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
1407 parsing after OOM
1408 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
1409 object
1410 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
1411 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
1412 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
1413 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
1414 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
1415 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
1416 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
1417 ppc64le
1418 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
1419 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
1420 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
1421 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
1422 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
1423 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
1424 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
1425 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
1426 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
1427 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
1428 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
1429 math_force_eval
1430 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
1431 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
1432 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1433 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1434 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1435 the svid compat wrapper
1436 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1437 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1438 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1439 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1440 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1441 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1442 --verbose.
1443 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1444 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1445 to 2.26
1446 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1447 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1448 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1449 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1450 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1451 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1452 (CVE-2017-15804)
1453 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1454 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1455 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1456 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1457 failure."
1458 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1459 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1460 -m32
1461 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1462 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1463 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1464 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1465 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1466 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1467 inside the ASCII printable range
1468 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1469 -mlong-double-64
1470 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1471 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1472 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1473 Internet
1474 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1475 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1476 backslash
1477 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1478 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1479 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1480 heaps in an arena
1481 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1482 networking interface
1483 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1484 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1485 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1486 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1487 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1488 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1489 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1490 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1491 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1492 order
1493 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1494 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1495 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1496 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1497 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1498 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1499 same as for Croatian
1500 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1501 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1502 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1503 for initial thread"
1504 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1505 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1506 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1507 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1508 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1509 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1510 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1511 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1512 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1513 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1514 modified in case of success
1515 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1516 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1517 success
1518 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1519 stack-protector=all
1520 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1521 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1522 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1523 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1524 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1525 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1526 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1527 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1528 adding it on top
1529 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1530 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1531 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1532 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1533 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1534 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1535 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1536 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1537 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1538 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1539 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1540 elision and tunables
1541 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1542 "invalid" exception
1543 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1544 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1545 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1546 exception
1547 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1548 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1549 power4
1550 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1551 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1552 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1553 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1554 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1555 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1556 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1557 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1558 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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1561Version 2.26
1562
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1563Major new features:
1564
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1565* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1566 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1567 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1568 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1569 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1570 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1571 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1572
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1573* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1574 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 1575 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1576 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1577 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1578 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1579 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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1581* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1582 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1583 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 1584
2b2ccd0c 1585* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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1587 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1588 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1589 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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1591 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1592 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1593 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1594 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1595 object are still limited to six search domains.
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1597 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1598 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1599 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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1601* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1602 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 1603
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1604* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1605 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1606 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1607 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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1609* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1610 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1611 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1612 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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1614* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1615 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1616 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1617 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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1619* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1620 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1621 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 1622
2b2ccd0c 1623* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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1624 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1625 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1626 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 1627
2b2ccd0c 1628 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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1629 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1630 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1631 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1632 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1633
1634 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1635 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1636 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1637 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1638 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1639 interfaces should be used instead.
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1641Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1642
1643* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1644 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1645 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1646 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1647 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1648 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1649 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1650 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1651
1652* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1653 removed.
1654
1655* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
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1657 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1658 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1659
1660* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1661 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1662 default.
1663
1664 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1665 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1666 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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1667 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
1668 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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1670 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1671 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1672 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1673 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1674
1675* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1676 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1677 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1678 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1679
1680* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1681 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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1683* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1684 exported by accident.
1685
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1686* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1687 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1688 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1689
1690* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1691 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1692 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1693 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1694
1695* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1696
1697* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1698
1699* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1700 free instead.
1701
1702* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1703 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1704
1705* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1706 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1707
1708* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1709 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1710 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1711 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1712 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1713 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1714 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1715 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1716
1717* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1718 synced with the kernel:
1719
1720 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1721 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1722
1723 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1724 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1725 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1726
1727 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1728 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1729
1730Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1731
1732* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1733 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1734 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1735
7e368000 1736* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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1739 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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1741 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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1742 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1743 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1744 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 1745 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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1748
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1750 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1751
1752* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1753 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1754
1755* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1756 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1757 (CVE-2010-3192).
1758
1759* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1760 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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1762The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1764 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1765 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1766 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1767 fields
1768 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1769 (CVE-2010-3192)
1770 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1771 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1772 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1773 ld.bfd is available
1774 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1775 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1776 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1777 x86 and other generic code
1778 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1779 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1780 incorrect
1781 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1782 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1783 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1784 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1785 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1786 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1787 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1788 resolver
1789 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1790 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1791 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1792 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1793 chillu characters
1794 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1795 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1796 receiving data
1797 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1798 whitespace
1799 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1800 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1801 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
1802 for Peru
1803 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1804 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1805 failures consistently
1806 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1807 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1808 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1809 frame-pointer on i386
1810 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1811 register
1812 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1813 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1814 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1815 generic c code is used
1816 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1817 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1818 around 4000
1819 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1820 (CVE-2017-12133)
1821 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1822 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1823 with -lieee
1824 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1825 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1826 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1827 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1828 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1829 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1830 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1831 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1832 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1833 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1834 remove()
1835 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1836 checked for errors.
1837 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1838 new posix_spawn implementation
1839 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1840 leads to lower CPU frequency
1841 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1842 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1843 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1844 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1845 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1846 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1847 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1848 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1849 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1850 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1851 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1852 not support gethostbyname4_r
1853 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1854 switching
1855 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1856 arenas
1857 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1858 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1859 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1860 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1861 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1862 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1863 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1864 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1865 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1866 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1867 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1868 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1869 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1870 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1871 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1872 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1873 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1874 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1875 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1876 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1877 retry value
1878 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1879 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1880 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1881 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1882 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1883 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1884 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1885 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1886 [21537] libc:
1887 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1888 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1889 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1890 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1891 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1892 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1893 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1894 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1895 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1896 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1897 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1898 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1899 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1900 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1901 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1902 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1903 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1904 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1905 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1906 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1907 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1908 issue on x86-64
1909 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1910 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1911 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1912 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1913 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1914 construction
1915 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1916 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1917 between_2_3
1918 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1919 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1920 conditions
1921 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1922 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1923 Hindi Locale
1924 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1925 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1926 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1927 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1928 locale
1929 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1930 leading to relocation crash
1931 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1932 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1933 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1934 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1935 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1936 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1937 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1938 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1939 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1940 locale
1941 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1942 locale
1943 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1944 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1945 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1946 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1947 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1948 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1949 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1950 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1951 strings
1952 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1953 protector=all
1954 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1955 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1956 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1957 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1958 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1959 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1960 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1961 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1962 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1963 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1964 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1965 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1966 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1967 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1968 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1969 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1970 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1971 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1972 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1973 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1974 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1975 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1976 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1977 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1978 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1979 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1980 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1981 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1982 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1983 with unicode 9.0
1984 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1985 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1986 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1987 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1988 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 1989
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1991Version 2.25
1992
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1993* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1994 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1995 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1996 Library.
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1998* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1999 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 2000 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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2001 the GNU C Library.
2002
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2003* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2004 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2005 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2006 the GNU C Library.
2007
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2008* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2009 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2010 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2011 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2012 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2013 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2014 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2015 will not.
2016
2017 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2018 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2019 many years.
2020
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2021* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2022 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2023 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2024
2025 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2026 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2027 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2028 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2029 problem.
2030
ec94343f 2031* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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2032 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2033 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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2035* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2036 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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2037 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2038 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2039 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2040 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2041 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2042 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2043 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2044 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2045 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2046 WINT_WIDTH.
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2048* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2049
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2050 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2051
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2052 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2053 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2054 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 2055
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2056 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2057 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2058
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2059 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2060 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2061
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2062 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2063
29cb9293 2064 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 2065
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2066 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2067 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 2068
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2069 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2070
eb3c12c7 2071 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 2072 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 2073
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2074* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2075 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2076
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2077* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2078 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2079 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2080
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2081* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2082 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2083 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2084 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2085 effects of the memory clear).
2086
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2087* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2088 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2089 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2090 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2091
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2092* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2093 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2094 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2095 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2096 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2097 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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2099* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2100 have been added.
2101
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2102* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2103 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2104 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2105 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2106 as large as several megabytes.
2107
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2108* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2109 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2110 been removed.
2111
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2112* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2113 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2114 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2115 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2116 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2117 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2118 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2119
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2120* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2121 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2122 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2123 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2124
099191b1 2125* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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2126 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2127 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2128 Internet.
2129
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2130* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2131 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2132 They were already unimplemented.
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2134* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2135 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2136 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2137 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2138
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2139* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2140 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2141 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2142 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2143 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2144
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2145* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2146 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2147 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2148 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2149 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2150
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2151* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2152 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2153 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2154 did not reflect that.
2155
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2156* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2157 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2158 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2159 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2160 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2161 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2162 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2163 'gcc/config.gcc'.
2164
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2165* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2166 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2167 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2168 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2169
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2170* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2171 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2172 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2173 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2174
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2176 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2177 guarantees.
2178
2179* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2180 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2181 make state changes.
2182
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2184
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2186 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2187 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2188 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 2189 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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2191* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2192 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2193 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2194 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2195 (CVE-2015-5180)
2196
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2197The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2198
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2199 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
2200 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2201 protector-all
2202 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2203 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2204 before it started waiting
2205 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2206 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2207 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2208 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2209 wrong type
2210 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2211 library linked with pthread
2212 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2213 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2214 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2215 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2216 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2217 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2218 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2219 when it shouldnt
2220 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2221 not
2222 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2223 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2224 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2225 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2226 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2227 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2228 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2229 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2230 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2231 termination
2232 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2233 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2234 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2235 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2236 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2237 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2238 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2239 causes a segmentation fault
2240 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2241 linking
2242 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2243 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2244 uninitialized GOT
2245 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2246 versions
2247 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2248 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2249 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2250 is always true.
2251 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2252 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2253 modes
2254 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2255 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2256 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2257 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2258 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2259 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2260 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2261 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2262 libpthread.a
2263 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2264 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2265 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2266 _res_hconf
2267 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2268 information.
2269 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2270 penalty
2271 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2272 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2273 cause transition penalty
2274 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2275 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2276 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2277 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2278 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2279 mcount.oS)
2280 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2281 Checking
2282 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2283 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2284 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2285 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2286 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2287 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2288 multi-arch
2289 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2290 (RES_USEBSTRING)
2291 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2292 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2293 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2294 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2295 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2296 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2297 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2298 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2299 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2300 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2301 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2302 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2303 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2304 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2305 glibc
2306 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2307 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2308 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2309 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2310 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2311 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2312 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2313 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2314 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2315 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2316 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2317 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2318 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2319 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2320 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2321 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2322 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2323 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2324 RES_USE_INET6
2325 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2326 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2327 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2328 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2329 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2330 wrong condition
2331 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2332 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
2333 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
2334 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
2335 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
2336 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
2337 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
2338 clang
2339 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
2340 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
2341 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
2342 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
2343 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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2345Version 2.24
2346
5b4ecd3f
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2347* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2348 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
2349 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
2350 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
2351 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
2352 architectures.
2353
b6ebba70
MF
2354* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
2355 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
2356 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 2357
7584a3f9
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2358* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
2359 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
2360
b49ab5f4
FW
2361* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
2362 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
2363 instead of “union wait”.
2364
ced8f893
SG
2365* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
2366 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
2367 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
2368 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
2369 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
2370 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
2371 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
2372
2ba3cfa1
FW
2373* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
2374 API.
2375
b7a9b7b0
MF
2376* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
2377 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
2378 drop it.
6a54bcda 2379
41a359e2
RS
2380* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
2381 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
2382 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
2383 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
2384 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
2385 extensions.
2386
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2387Security related changes:
2388
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2389* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
2390 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
2391 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
2392
4ab2ab03
FW
2393* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
2394 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
2395 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
2396 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 2397
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FW
2398* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
2399 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
2400 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
2401
bc779a1a
FW
2402* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
2403 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
2404 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
2405
fab38231
FW
2406* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
2407 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
2408 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
2409 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
2410
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2411The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2412
3c4f81ec
CD
2413 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
2414 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
2415 of MS-DOS.
2416 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
2417 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
2418 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
2419 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
2420 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
2421 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
2422 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
2423 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
2424 CLDR data
2425 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
2426 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
2427 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
2428 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
2429 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
2430 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
2431 romanisation
2432 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2433 and +/-
2434 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2435 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2436 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2437 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2438 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2439 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2440 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2441 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2442 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2443 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2444 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2445 all locales
2446 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2447 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2448 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2449 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2450 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2451 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2452 execute
2453 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2454 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2455 -Wsystem-headers
2456 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2457 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2458 Romanian locale data
2459 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2460 symbol
2461 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2462 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2463 language
2464 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2465 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2466 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2467 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2468 machine
2469 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2470 description
2471 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2472 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2473 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2474 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2475 when using RTLD_NEXT
2476 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2477 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2478 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2479 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2480 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2481 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2482 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2483 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2484 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2485 Excavator core
2486 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2487 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2488 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2489 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2490 double range
2491 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2492 part zero incorrect
2493 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2494 equality tests
2495 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2496 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2497 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2498 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2499 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2500 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2501 glibc-2.22
2502 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2503 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2504 'tst-numeric.c'
2505 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2506 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2507 low part
2508 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2509 result
2510 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2511 unaligned stack
2512 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2513 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2514 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2515 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2516 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2517 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2518 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2519 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2520 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2521 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2522 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2523 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2524 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2525 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2526 modes
2527 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2528 server addresses
2529 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2530 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2531 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2532 response to getaddrinfo
2533 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2534 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2535 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2536 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2537 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2538 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2539 sometimes incorrect
2540 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2541 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2542 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2543 record types
2544 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2545 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2546 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2547 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2548 (CVE-2016-3075)
2549 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2550 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2551 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2552 resolving symbols
2553 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2554 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2555 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2556 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2557 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2558 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2559 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2560 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2561 gethosts
2562 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2563 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2564 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2565 (CVE-2016-3706)
2566 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2567 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2568 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2569 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2570 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2571 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2572 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2573 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2574 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2575 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2576 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2577 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2578 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2579 executable
2580 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2581 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2582 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2583 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2584 XPG3
2585 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2586 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2587 (CVE-2016-4429)
2588 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2589 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2590 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2591 AS not supporting AVX512
2592 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2593 sNaN argument
2594 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2595 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2596 argument
2597 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2598 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2599 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2600 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2601 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2602 eax=0x80000001
2603 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2604 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2605 subnormals
2606 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2607 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2608 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2609 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2610 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2611 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2612 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2613 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2614 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2615 input
2616 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2617 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2618 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2619 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2620 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2621 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2622 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2623 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2624 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2625 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2626 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2627 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2628 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2629 double rounding
2630 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2631 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2632 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2633 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2634 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2635 (Only arm/linux)
2636 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2637 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2638 fallbacks
2639 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2640 "invalid" exceptions
2641 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2642 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2643 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2644 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2645 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2646 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2647 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2648 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2649 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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2651Version 2.23
2652
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2653* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2654 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2655 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2656 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2657 89, 16061, and 18568.
2658
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2659* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2660 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2661 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2662 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2663 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2664 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2665 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2666
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2667* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2668 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2669 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2670
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2671* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2672 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2673 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2674 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2675 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2676 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2677 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2678
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2679* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2680 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2681 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2682 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2683 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 2684 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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2685 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2686 Ericsson.)
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2688* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2689 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2690 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2691 independent of the GNU C Library.
2692
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2693* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2694 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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2696* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2697 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2698 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2699 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2700 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2701 Linux kernel.
2702
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2703* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2704 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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2706* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2707 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2708 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2709 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2710 defining their own copy.
2711
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2712* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2713 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2714 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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2716Security related changes:
2717
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2718* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2719 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2720
2721* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2722 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2723 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2724 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2725 (CVE-2015-8777)
2726
2727* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2728 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2729
2730* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2731 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
2732
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2733* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2734 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 2735 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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2737* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2738 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2739 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2740 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2741 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2742 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2743 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2744 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2745 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2746 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2747 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2748 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2749 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2750
ad372e29 2751The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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2753 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
2754 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2755 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2756 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2757 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2758 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2759 use `mkstemp'
2760 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2761 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2762 overflow/underflow errors
2763 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2764 overflow/underflow
2765 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2766 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2767 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2768 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2769 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2770 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2771 are not contiguous
2772 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2773 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2774 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2775 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2776 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2777 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2778 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2779 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2780 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2781 all exceptions
2782 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2783 arguments
2784 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2785 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2786 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2787 should include
2788 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2789 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2790 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2791 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2792 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2793 GNU/Linux
2794 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2795 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2796 arguments
2797 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2798 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2799 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2800 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2801 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2802 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2803 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2804 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2805 rounding results
2806 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2807 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2808 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2809 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2810 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2811 fails
2812 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2813 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2814 block boundary
2815 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2816 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2817 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2818 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2819 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2820 4.7?
2821 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2822 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2823 (related to lock elision)
2824 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2825 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2826 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2827 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2828 (CVE-2015-8779)
2829 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2830 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2831 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2832 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2833 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2834 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2835 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2836 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2837 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2838 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2839 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2840 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2841 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2842 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2843 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2844 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2845 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2846 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2847 contains a vector instruction exception.
2848 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2849 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2850 locales
2851 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2852 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2853 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2854 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2855 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2856 missing break ?
2857 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2858 32bit processes
2859 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2860 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2861 infinity
2862 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2863 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2864 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2865 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2866 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2867 be forced unloaded
2868 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2869 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2870 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2871 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2872 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2873 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2874 statically too large
2875 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2876 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2877 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2878 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2879 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2880 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2881 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2882 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2883 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2884 FUTEX_SHARED
2885 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2886 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2887 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2888 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2889 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2890 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2891 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2892 opendir()
2893 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2894 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2895 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2896 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2897 signgam
2898 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2899 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2900 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2901 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2902 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2903 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2904 dependencies
2905 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2906 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2907 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2908 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2909 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2910 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2911 (CVE-2015-8776)
2912 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2913 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2914 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2915 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2916 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2917 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2918 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2919 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2920 contention
2921 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2922 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2923 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2924 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2925 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2926 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2927 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2928 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2929 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2930 rounding modes
2931 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2932 ILP32
2933 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2934 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2935 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2936 threshold
2937 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2938 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2939 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2940 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2941 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2942 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2943 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2944 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2945 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2946 pthread_setaffinity_np
2947 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2948 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2949 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2950 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2951 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2952 prelink
2953 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2954 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2955 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2956 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2957 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2958 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2959 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2960 bits/mathcalls.h
2961 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2962 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2963 for C99-based standards
2964 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2965 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2966 math-only
2967 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2968 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2969 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2970 disabled
2971 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2972 "inexact" exceptions
2973 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2974 arguments
2975 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2976 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2977 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2978 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2979 rules
2980 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2981 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2982 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2983 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2984 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2985 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2986 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2987 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2988 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2989 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2990 from 32bit
2991 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2992 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2993 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2994 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2995 subnormals
2996 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2997 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2998 error on 32-bit architectures
2999 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3000 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3001 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3002 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3003 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3004 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3005 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3006 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3007 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3008 -Os
3009 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3010 CPU's.
3011 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3012 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3013 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3014 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3015 architectures
3016 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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3019
3020* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3021
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3023 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3024 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3025 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3026 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3027 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3028 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3029 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3030 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3031 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3032 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3033 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3034 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3035 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3036 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3037 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3038 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3039 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
3040 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3041 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 3042
f7fba805
SL
3043* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3044 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3045
2959eda9
AS
3046* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3047 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3048 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3049 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3050 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3051 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 3052
42261ad7
FW
3053* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3054 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3055 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3056 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3057 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3058
afcd9480
AM
3059* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3060 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3061 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3062
4a4839c9
AO
3063* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3064 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3065 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3066 17998.
3067
b13b96ca
AS
3068* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3069 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3070 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
3071
3072* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
3073 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3074 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
3075 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3076 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
3077 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3078 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 3079 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
3080
3081* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3082 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3083 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3084 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
3085
3086* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3087 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3088 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
3089
3090* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3091 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
3092
3093* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3094 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3095 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3096
a03ba363 3097 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
3098 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3099 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 3100\f
58b930ae
SP
3101Version 2.21
3102
3103* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3104
042e1521 3105 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
3106 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3107 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3108 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3109 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3110 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3111 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3112 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3113 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3114 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3115 17892.
3116
46d54873
FW
3117* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3118 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3119 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3120 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3121 intended.
042e1521
CD
3122
3123* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3124 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3125 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3126 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3127 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3128 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 3129
522e6ee3
CLT
3130* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3131
d3b00f46
AZ
3132* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3133 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 3134 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 3135
8d2c0a59
AZ
3136* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3137 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3138 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3139 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3140 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3141 effects being visible outside transactions.
3142
dc400d7b
RE
3143* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3144 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 3145
0f9dfe04
L
3146* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3147
a39208bd
CD
3148* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3149 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 3150 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
3151 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3152 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 3153
a5357b7c
JL
3154* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3155 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3156
e54db0ea
AM
3157* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3158 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3159 format.
11e3417a 3160
4863355a
JM
3161* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3162 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3163 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3164
a4ecc9eb
JM
3165* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3166 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3167
0d560bbf 3168* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
3169
3170* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3171 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3172 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3173 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
3174
3175* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3176 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
3177
3178* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3179 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3180 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3181 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3182 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3183 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3184 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3185 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3186 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3187 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3188 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3189 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3190 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3191
3192 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3193 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3194 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3195 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3196 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 3197\f
d5b396c1
AM
3198Version 2.20
3199
3200* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3201
6a9350c8
JM
3202 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3203 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3204 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3205 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3206 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3207 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3208 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3209 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3210 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3211 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3212 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3213 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3214 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3215 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3216 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 3217
95ee7fb1
SL
3218* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3219 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3220 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3221 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3222 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 3223 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
3224 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3225 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3226 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3227 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3228
0961f7e1
JL
3229* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3230 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3231 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3232 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3233 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 3234
f940b965
RE
3235* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3236
d0f5b3f8
JM
3237* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3238 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3239
d6fe5e58
JM
3240* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3241 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3242 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3243 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3244 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3245 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3246
464263cc
JM
3247* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3248 from ports.
c941736c
JM
3249
3250* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3251 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3252 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3253 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3254 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3255 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3256 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
3257
3258* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
3259
3260* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3261 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3262 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3263 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3264 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3265 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3266 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
3267
3268* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3269 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3270 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3271 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3272 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
3273
3274* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3275 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3276 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
3277
3278* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3279 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3280 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3281 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
3282
3283* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3284 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3285 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3286 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3287 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3288 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3289 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3290 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
3291
3292* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3293 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3294 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3295 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3296 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3297 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3298 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3299 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3300 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
3301
3302* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3303 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3304 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3305 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3306 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 3307 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
3308
3309* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3310 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3311 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3312 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
3313\f
3314Version 2.19
3315
3316* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3317
fd2f9486
JM
3318 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3319 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3320 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3321 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3322 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3323 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3324 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3325 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3326 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3327 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
3328 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3329 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3330 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
3331 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
3332 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
3333 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
3334 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
3335 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 3336
11520a57
CD
3337* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
3338 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
3339
2fe16229
CD
3340* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
3341 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
3342 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
3343 extension which uses __block.
3344
303e567a
SP
3345* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
3346 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
3347 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
3348 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
3349 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
3350
141f3a77
SP
3351* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
3352 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
3353 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
3354 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
3355 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
3356
3357* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
3358 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
3359 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
3360 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
3361 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
3362
3363* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
3364 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
3365 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
3366
ba0d798c
WN
3367* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
3368 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
3369 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
3370 #15856, #15857).
3371
7cbcdb36
SP
3372* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
3373 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
3374
82bab04b 3375* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 3376 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 3377
c5f840fd
MB
3378* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
3379
3e181dda
CD
3380* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
3381 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 3382
3e181dda 3383* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 3384
8a05c252
CL
3385* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
3386
6055173a
JM
3387* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
3388 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
3389 for which the C library was built.
3390
b125d3e5
JM
3391* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
3392 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
3393 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
3394 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
3395 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
3396 in the following circumstances:
3397
3398 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
3399
3400 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
3401 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
3402
d4f66d37
JM
3403* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
3404 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
3405
3e181dda
CD
3406* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
3407 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 3408
ffb89e53
AO
3409* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
3410
5d29ccce
SP
3411* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
3412 transcendental functions have been introduced.
3413
8b7d57cd 3414* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
3415
3416* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 3417
fd712ef3 3418* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 3419
c688b419
JM
3420* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
3421 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
3422 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
3423 disable some of those declarations.
3424
7011c262 3425* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
3426 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
3427 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
3428
3429* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
3430 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
3431
3432* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3433 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3434 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3435 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3436 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3437 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3438 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3439 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3440 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3441 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3442 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3443 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3444 require recompilation.
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3445\f
3446Version 2.18
3447
3448* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3449
17db6e8d 3450 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
3451 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3452 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
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3453 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3454 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3455 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3456 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3457 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3458 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3459 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3460 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3461 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3462 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3463 15755, 15759.
e4608715
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3464
3465* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3466 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3467 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3468 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3469 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3470 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 3471
5b535ac4
AS
3472* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3473 #15078).
3474
1cef1b19
AS
3475* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3476 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 3477
55e4107b
SP
3478* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3479 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3480 destructor calls to glibc.
3481
e5c74c63
SP
3482* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3483 output.
3484
3485* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3486 non-x86 architectures.
3487
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3488* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3489
3490* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3491
3492* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3493 Richard Henderson.
3494
3495* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3496
3497* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3498 Richard Henderson.
3499
3500* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3501 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3502
8cfdb7e0
SP
3503* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3504
57267616
TS
3505* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3506 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 3507
c204ab28
SP
3508* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3509 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 3510
0748546f
PE
3511* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3512 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3513 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3514
61dd6208
SP
3515* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3516 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3517 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
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3518
3519* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3520 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3521 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3522 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3523 mutexes.
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RA
3524
3525* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3526 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3527
3528* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
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3529\f
3530Version 2.17
3531
3532* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3533
80ceeaee 3534 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
3535 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3536 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3537 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3538 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3539 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3540 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3541 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3542 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3543 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3544 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3545 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3546 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3547 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3548 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 3549
95b4f1b6
SE
3550* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3551
14bc93a9
JL
3552* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3553 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 3554
b54eb3cb
JM
3555* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3556 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3557
7e2bd01f
MS
3558* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3559
08f43f9b
AK
3560* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3561 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3562 zEnterprise z196.
3563 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3564
84b3fd84
FW
3565* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3566 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3567 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3568
815e6fa3
GB
3569* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3570 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3571
400726de
MK
3572* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3573 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3574
7aab07e4 3575* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 3576 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 3577
15d0da8c
WS
3578* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3579 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3580
3cc3ef96
RM
3581* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3582 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
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3583 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3584 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 3585
b54eb3cb
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3586* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3587 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3588
85429b1a 3589* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 3590 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
3591 default.
3592
b54eb3cb
JM
3593* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3594 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3595 information in --help and --version output.
3596
050af9c4
SP
3597* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3598 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3599 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3600
89a3ad0b
AO
3601* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3602 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3603 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3604 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3605 when the mode is enabled.
3606
6e6249d0
RM
3607* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3608 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3609 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3610 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3611 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3612 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3613 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 3614
d9286582
NK
3615* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3616 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
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3617\f
3618Version 2.16
3619
3620* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3621
a8133e19
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3622 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3623 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3624 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3625 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3626 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3627 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3628 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3629 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3630 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3631 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3632 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3633 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3634 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3635 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3636 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3637 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3638 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3639 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3640 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3641 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3642 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3643 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3644 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 3645
a086b4d6
L
3646* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3647 configuring glibc with:
3648 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3649 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3650 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3651
380d7e87
UD
3652* ISO C11 support:
3653
3654 + define static_assert
3655
3656 + do not declare gets
3657
3658 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3659
3660 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3661 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3662 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3663 implementation.
8d44e150 3664
74033a25 3665 + timespec_get added
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3666
3667 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 3668
ac097f5c
UD
3669 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3670
16dd419d
UD
3671 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3672
9dc4e1fb 3673* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
UD
3674
3675* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
3676
3677* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3678 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
3679
3680* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3681 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
3682
3683* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3684 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3685 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3686 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3687 existing applications.
ffb7875d 3688
21708942 3689* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
3690 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3691 before 2.6.
83678f76 3692
edb00e4d
RH
3693* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3694 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3695 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3696
83678f76 3697* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
3698
3699* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3700 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3701 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3702 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3703 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
3704
3705* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3706
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3707* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3708 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
3709
3710* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3711
3712* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3713 without a previously built glibc.
3714
3715* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3716 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3717
3718* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3719 now supported for ARM processors.
3720
3721* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3722 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3723 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3724
3725* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3726
3727* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3728 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3729 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3730 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
3731
3732* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3733 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3734 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3735 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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3736
3737* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3738 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3739 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3740 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3741 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3742
3743* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3744 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3745 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3746 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 3747\f
e80fab37 3748Version 2.15
11988f8f 3749
c0244a9d
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3750* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3751
aebae053
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3752 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3753 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3754 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3755 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3756 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3757 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3758 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 3759
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3760* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3761 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
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3762
3763* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3764 and support for initgroups lookups.
3765 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
3766
3767* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3768 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
3769
3770* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3771 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 3772
fc2ee42a
LD
3773* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3774 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 3775 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 3776
d42964a0 3777* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
3778 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3779
1d3e4b61
UD
3780* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3781 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
3782 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3783
c55fbd1e
UD
3784* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3785 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
UD
3786
3787* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3788 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
UD
3789
3790* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3791 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
UD
3792
3793* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3794 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
UD
3795
3796* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3797 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3798
3799* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3800 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
UD
3801
3802* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
UD
3803
3804* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3805 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 3806
f0b264f1
AZ
3807* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3808 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 3809
6b64057b 3810* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 3811\f
dded88cd 3812Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 3813
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3814* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3815
553149f6 3816 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3817 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3818 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3819 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3820 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3821 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3822 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3823 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3824 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3825 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 3826
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3827* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3828 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3829 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3830 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3831
3832 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
a0446976
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3833 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3834 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
UD
3835 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3836
c6489db3 3837* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3838 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 3839
72d1dddb 3840* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 3841 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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3843* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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3845* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3846 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3848* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3849 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3850 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3851 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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3856
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3858 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3859 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3860 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3861 12378, 12394, 12397
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10b3bedc 3863* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 3864
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3868 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3869 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3872
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3874
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3875 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3876 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3877 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3878 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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3879 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3880 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3881 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3882 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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3884* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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3886* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3887
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3888* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3889
3890* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3891 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3892 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3895 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3896 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3897 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3898 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3899
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3903
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3905
3906 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3907 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3908 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3909 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3910 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3911 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
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3913* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3914 mkostemps64
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3916
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3918 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3919
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3920* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3921 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3922
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3923* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3924
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9d36a6c4 3926 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3927 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3929
9d36a6c4 3930 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3932
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3933* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3934 strstr, strcasestr.
3935 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3936
3937* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3938 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
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3940* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3941 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3942
3943* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3944 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3945
3946* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3947 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3948 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3949 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3950 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3951 necessity is every process again.
3952 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3953
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3954* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3955 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3956
3957* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3958 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
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3960* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3961 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3962 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3963
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3967
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3969
3970 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3971 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3972 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3973 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3974 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3975
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3977 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3978
425ce2ed 3979* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3980 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3981
1fdd89a7 3982* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3983 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3985* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3986 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 3988* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3989 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3991* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3992 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3993
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3994* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3995 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3996
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3997* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3998 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3999
4000* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4001 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4002 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4003
735be400 4004* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
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84aa52d7 4006* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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4007 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4008
4009* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4010 and extend existing format specifiers.
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4011 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4012
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4013* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4014 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4015
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4016* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4017 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4018 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4019 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4020 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4021 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4023Version 2.9
4024
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4025* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4026
4027 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
4028 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
4029 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
4030 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
4031 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4032
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4034 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4035
4036* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4037 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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4038
4039* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4040 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4042* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4043 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4044 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4045
4046* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4047 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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8ec2550e 4049* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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4051* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 4052 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4054* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4055 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4056 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4057 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4058
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4059* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4060 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4062* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4063 Sinhala)
48b22986 4064 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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4066* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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4069
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4071
4072 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4073 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4074 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4075 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4076 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4077 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4078 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4079
e038616f 4080* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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77751669 4082* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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4084* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4085 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4086
4087* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4088
4089* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4090 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4091
4092* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4093 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4094
4095* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4096 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4097 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4098
4099* Faster memset for x86-64.
4100 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4101
4102* Faster memcpy on x86.
4103 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4104
4105* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4106 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4108* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 4109 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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4112
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4113* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4114
4115 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4116 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4117 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4118 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4119 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4120
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4121* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4122 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4123
4124* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4125
4126* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4127 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4128 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4129
4130* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4131 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4132
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4134 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4135
4136* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4137
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4138* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4139 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4140
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4141* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4142 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4143
4144* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4145 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4146
4147* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4148
4149* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4150 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4152* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4153 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4154 yo_NG.
4155
4156+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4157 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4162
4163 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4164 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4165 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4166 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4167 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4168 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4169 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4170 4702, 4858
4171
bce20b9a 4172* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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4175
b21fa963 4176* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4178Version 2.5
4179
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4181
4182 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4183 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4184 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4185 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4186 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4187 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4188 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4189 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4190 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4191
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4194 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4196* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4197 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4198
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4201* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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4203* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4204 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4205 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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4208
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4211 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4212 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4213
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4215 Ulrich Drepper.
4216
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4218
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4220 Ulrich Drepper.
4221
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4222* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4223
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4224* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4225 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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4228
4229* More overflow detection functions.
4230
4231* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4232 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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4234 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4235 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4236 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4237 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4238 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4239 by Masahide Washizawa.
4240
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4242 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4244* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4245 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4246 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4247 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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4249* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4250 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4251
4252* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4253
4254* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4255 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4256 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4257
4258* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4259 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4260
4261* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4262 for compatibility with some other systems.
4263
4264* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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4266Version 2.3.6
4267
4268* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4269
4270 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4271 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4272 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4273 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4274 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4275 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4276
5a82c748 4277 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4279* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4280
4281* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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4283Version 2.3.5
4284
4285* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4286
4287 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4288 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4289 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4290 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4291
5a82c748 4292 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4294Version 2.3.4
4295
4296* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4297 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4298
4299* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4300 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4301 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4302
4303* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4304 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4305
0325dd20 4306* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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4307 efficiently.
4308 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4309
4310* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4311 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4312 handling data.
4313
4314* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4315 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 4316 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4317
4318* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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4319 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4320
4321* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4322 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4323 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4324 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4325
4326* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4327 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4328 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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4329 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4330
4331* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
4332 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
4333 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
4334 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
4335 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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4337Version 2.3.3
4338
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4339* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
4340 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
4341
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4342* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
4343 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 4344
69be6aaf 4345* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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4346 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
4347
4348* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
4349 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4350
4351* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
4352 by Roland McGrath.
4353
c5af724c 4354* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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4355 and Ulrich Drepper.
4356
4357* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
4358 RFC 3484.
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4360Version 2.3.2
4361
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4362* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
4363 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
4364 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
4365 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
4366 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
4367 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
4368 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
4369 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
4370 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
4371
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4372* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
4373 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
4374 and are now also available on the Hurd.
4375
4376* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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4377
4378* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
4379 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 4380
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4381* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
4382 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
4383
52a16e58 4384* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
f9ad060c 4385
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4386* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
4387 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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4388
4389* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
4390 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
4391 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
4392 of weak definition in ld.so.
4393
4394* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
4395 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
4396
4397* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
4398 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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37fb1084 4401
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4402* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
4403 charsets.
4404
4405* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
4406 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 4407
bb0ec5bd 4408* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 4409 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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4410
4411* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
4412 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 4413
bb0ec5bd 4414* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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4415 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
4416 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4417
4418* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
4419 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 4420
bb0ec5bd 4421* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 4422 implementation of regex.
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4423
4424* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
4425 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 4426
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4427* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
4428 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 4429
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4430* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
4431 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
4432 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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4433
4434* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 4435 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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4436
4437* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4438 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4439 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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4440
4441* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4442 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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4443
4444* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4445 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4446 and Ulrich Drepper.
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4447
4448* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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4450Version 2.2.6
4451
4452* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4453 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4454
4455* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4456 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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4458Version 2.2.5
4459
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4460* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4461 128-bit long double format.
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4463* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4464 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 4465
ad2e4f18 4466* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 4467
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4468* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4469
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4470* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4471 as well.
4472
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4473* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4474 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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4475
4476* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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4478Version 2.2.4
4479
2995f70e 4480* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 4481 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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4482
4483* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4484 support Unicode 3.1.
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4485
4486* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4487 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 4488
69d5f925 4489* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 4490
69d5f925 4491* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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4492 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4493 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4494
4495* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4496 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4497
4498* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4499 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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4500
4501* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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4503Version 2.2.3
4504
1746f2b0 4505* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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4506 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4507 in float, double, and long double format.
4508
f128331c 4509* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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4510 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4511 128-bit long double format.
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4513* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4514 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4515 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4516 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4517
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4518* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4519 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4520 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4521
4522* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4523 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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4524
4525* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4526 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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4527
4528* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4529 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4530 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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4531
4532* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4533 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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4534
4535* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4536 of functions for Linux/x86.
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4537
4538* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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4540Version 2.2.2
4541
464d97ec 4542* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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4543 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4544 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4545 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4546 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4547 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4548 other headers.
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4549
4550* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4551 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4552
4553* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4554 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4555 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4556 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4557
4558* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4559 locales. While
4560
4561 locale -a
4562
4563 only lists the names of the supported locales
4564
4565 locale -a --verbose
4566
4567 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4568 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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4570Version 2.2.1
4571
4572* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4573 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4574 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4575 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4576 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4577
4578 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4579
4580 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4581
4582 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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4583
4584* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4585 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4586 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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4587
4588* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4589 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4590
4591* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4592 changed from the default "C" locale.
4593
4594* The usual bug fixes.
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4596Version 2.2
4597
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4598* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4599 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4600 is in progress.
4601
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4602* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4603
793bd4d9 4604* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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4606 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4607 obviously requires a database library being available.
4608
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4609* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4610
abbffdf9 4611* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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4613* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4614 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4615
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4616* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4617
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4618* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4619 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4620 and Mark Kettenis.
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4621
4622 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4623 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4624 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 4625
a00c3ca9 4626 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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4627 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4628
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4629* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4630 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4631 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4632
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4633* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4634 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4635 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4636 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4637
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4638 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4639 structures for the wide character tables.
4640
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4641* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4642
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4643* The utmp daemon has been removed.
4644
4645* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4646
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4647* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4648 and Yutaka Niibe.
4649
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4650* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4651
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4652* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4653
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4654* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4655
4656* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4657
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4658* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4659
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4660* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4661 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4662 implemented for Linux.
4663
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4664* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4665 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4666 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4667 versions.
4668
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4669* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4670 Masahide Washizawa.
4671
8f3f1e09 4672* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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4674Version 2.1.3
4675
4676* bug fixes
4677
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4679Version 2.1.2
4680
4681* bug fixes
4682
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4684Version 2.1.1
4685
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4686* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4687
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4688* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4689
407d26b7 4690* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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4691
4692* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4693
407d26b7 4694* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 4695
407d26b7 4696* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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4697
4698* Update timezone data files.
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4700* lots of charmaps corrections
4701
4702* some new locale definitions and charmaps
4703
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4705Version 2.1
4706
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4707* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4708 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4709 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4710 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4711 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4712 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4713
c84142e8 4714* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 4715 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 4716
1fb05e3d 4717* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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4719
4720* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4721 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 4722
cbdee279 4723* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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4724
4725* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 4726 numbers.
377a515b 4727
cbdee279 4728* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
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4730* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4731 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 4732
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4733* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4734 library.
4735
e61abf83 4736* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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4737 functions from ISO C 9X.
4738
4739* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4740 real valued functions.
e61abf83 4741
a5a0310d 4742* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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4744* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4745
4746* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 4747
440d13e2 4748* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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4749
4750* Optimized string functions have been added.
4751
4752* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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4754* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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4756* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4757 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4758
4759 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4760 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4761
0dee6738 4762 user system wall
48244d09 4763
0dee6738 4764 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 4765
0dee6738 4766 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 4767
0dee6738 4768 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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4770 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4771
4772 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4773
4774 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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4776 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
4777 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 4778 horribly slow.
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4780 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4781 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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4783* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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4785* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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4786
4787* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4788 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4789
4790* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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4792* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4793 Bambrough.
4794
4795* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4796 latest draft standards.
4797
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4799
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4801~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 4802addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4803alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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4805argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4806argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4807argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4808argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4809argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4810argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4811argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4812argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4813argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4815authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4816authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4818backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4819backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4820cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4821cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4822cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4823cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4824cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4825cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4826capget NEW: kernel
4827capset NEW: kernel
4828carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4829cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4830cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4831casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4832casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4833casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4834casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4835casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4836casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4837catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4838catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4839catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4840catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4841catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4842catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4844ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
4845ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4846ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4847ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4848ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4849ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4850cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4851cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4852cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4853cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4854cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4855cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4856clearerr_locked REMOVED
4857clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4858clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4859clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4860clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4861clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4862clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4863clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4864conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4865conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4866conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4867cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4868cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4869cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4870cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4871cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4872cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4873creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4874crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4875creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4876creat64 NEW: LFS
4877csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4878csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4879csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4880csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4881csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4882csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4883csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4884csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4885csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4886ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4887ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4888ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4889ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4890ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4891ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4892des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4893ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4894endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4895exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4896exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4897exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4898exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4899exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4900exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4901fattach NEW: STREAMS
4902fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4903fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4904fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4905fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4906feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4907fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4908fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4909fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4910feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4911feof_locked REMOVED
4912feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4913ferror_locked REMOVED
4914fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4915fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4916fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4917fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4918feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4919fflush_locked REMOVED
4920ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4921ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4922fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4923fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4924fileno_locked REMOVED
4925fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4926fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4927fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4928fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4929fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4930fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4931fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4932fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4933fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4934fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4935fopen64 NEW: LFS
4936fputc_locked REMOVED
4937fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4938fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4939freopen64 NEW: LFS
4940fseeko NEW: Unix98
4941fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4942fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4943fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4944fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4945ftello NEW: Unix98
4946ftello64 NEW: LFS
4947ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4948ftw64 NEW: LFS
4949fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4950gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4951gamma_r REMOVED
4952gammaf_r REMOVED
4953gammal_r REMOVED
4954getchar_locked REMOVED
4955getdate NEW: Unix98
4956getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4957getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4958getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4959getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 4960getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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4961getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4962getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4963getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4964getutxent NEW: Unix98
4965getutxid NEW: Unix98
4966getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4967glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4968globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4969gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4970gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4971grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4972host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4973iconv NEW: iconv
4974iconv_close NEW: iconv
4975iconv_open NEW: iconv
4976if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4977if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4978if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4979if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4980in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4981in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4982inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4983isastream NEW: STREAMS
4984iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4985key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4986key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4987key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4988key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4989key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4990key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4991key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4992key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4993key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4994llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4995llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4996llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4997llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4998llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4999llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5000log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5001log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5002log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5003lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5004lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5005lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5006lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5007lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5008lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5009lseek64 NEW: LFS
5010makecontext NEW: Unix98
5011mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5012mmap64 NEW: LFS
5013moncontrol REMOVED
5014modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5015nan NEW: ISO C 9x
5016nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5017nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5018nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5019nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5020nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5021netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5022netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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5023nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5024nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5025nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5026nftw NEW: Unix98
5027nftw64 NEW: LFS
5028open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 5029passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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5030pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
5031pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5032pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5033pread NEW: Unix98
5034pread64 NEW: LFS
5035printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5036printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5037profil_counter REMOVED
5038pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5039pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5040ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5041ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5042putc_locked REMOVED
5043putchar_locked REMOVED
5044putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5045putmsg NEW: STREAMS
5046putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 5047pututxline NEW: Unix98
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5048pwrite NEW: Unix98
5049pwrite64 NEW: LFS
5050readdir64 NEW: LFS
5051readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5052remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5053remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5054remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5055round NEW: ISO C 9x
5056roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5057roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5058rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5059scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5060scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5061scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5062scandir64 NEW: LFS
5063sendfile NEW: kernel
5064setcontext NEW: Unix98
5065setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 5066setutxent NEW: Unix98
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5067sighold NEW: Unix98
5068sigignore NEW: Unix98
5069sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5070sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5071sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5072sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5073sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5074sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5075sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5076sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5077statfs64 NEW: LFS
5078statvfs NEW: Unix98
5079statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5080strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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5081strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5082strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5083strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 5084svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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5085svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5086svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5087swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5088tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5089tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5090tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5091tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5092tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5093tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5094trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5095truncate64 NEW: LFS
5096truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5097truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5098umount2 NEW: kernel
5099unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 5100updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 5101user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5102utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5103versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 5104versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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5105waitid NEW: Unix98
5106wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5107wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5108wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5109wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5110wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5111wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5112wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5113wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5114wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5115wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5116write_profiling REMOVED
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5117xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5118xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5119xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5120xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5121xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5122xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5123xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5124xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5125xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5126xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5127xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5128xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5129xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5130xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 5131xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5132~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5133\f
5134Version 2.0.6
5135
5136* more bug fixes
5137
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5138\f
5139Version 2.0.5
5140
5141* more bug fixes
5142
5143* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5144
5145* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5146
5147* rewrite of cbrt function
5148
5149* update of timezone data
5150\f
5151Version 2.0.4
5152
5153* more bug fixes
5154\f
5155Version 2.0.3
5156
5157* more bug fixes
c84142e8 5158\f
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5159Version 2.0.2
5160
5161* more bug fixes
5162
5163* add atoll function
5164
5165* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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5166
5167* fix math functions
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5168\f
5169Version 2.0.1
5170
5171* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5172
5173* dynamic loader preserves all registers
5174
5175* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5176 the ELF dynamic loader.
5177
5178* support for parallel builds is improved
5179\f
40a4b79f 5180Version 2.0
28f540f4 5181
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5182* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5183 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5184 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
5185
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5186* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5187 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5188 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5189 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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5190 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5191 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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5192 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5193 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5194 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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5195 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5196 files in the ELF format.
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5197
5198* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5199 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5200
5201* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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5202 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5203 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5204 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5205 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5206 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5207 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5208 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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5209 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5210 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5211 about dynamically linked binaries.
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5213* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5214 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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5215 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5216 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5217 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 5218
f7eac6eb 5219* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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5220 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5221 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5222 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5223 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5224
5225* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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5227* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5228 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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5229 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5230 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5231 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5232 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5233 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5234 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5235 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 5236
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5237* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5238 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5239 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5240
5241* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5242 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5243 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5244
5245* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5246 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5247 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5248 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5249
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5250* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5251 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5252 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5253
5254* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5255 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5256 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5257
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5258* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5259 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5260
f7eac6eb 5261* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 5262 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 5263 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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5264 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5265
5266* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5267 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5268 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 5269
71733723 5270* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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5271 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5272 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5273 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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5274 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5275 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 5276 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 5277 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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5278
5279* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5280 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5281 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5282 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5283 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5284 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5285 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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5286
5287* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5288 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5289 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5290 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5291 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5292 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5293
5294* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5295 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5296
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5297* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5298 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5299 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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5301* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5302
5303* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5304 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5305 their use is discouraged.
5306
5307* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5308 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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5310* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5311 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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5312
5313* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5314 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5315
5316* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5317 see <dirent.h>.
5318
5319* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5320 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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5321 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5322 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5323 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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5324
5325* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5326 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5327 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5328 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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5329
5330* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
5331 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
5332
5333* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
5334 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
5335 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
5336 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
5337 number generator.
5338
5339* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
5340 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
5341
5342* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
5343 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
5344
71733723 5345* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 5346 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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5347 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
5348 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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5350* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
5351
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5352* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
5353 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
5354 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
5355
5356* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
5357 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 5359* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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5360 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
5361 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
5362 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
5363
5364* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
5365 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
5366 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
5367 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
5368 programs already written to use it.)
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5369
5370* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
5371 constants.
5372
5373* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
5374 with 4.4 BSD.
5375
5376* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
5377 a given effective group ID.
5378
5379* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
5380 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
5381 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
5382 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
5383
5384* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 5385 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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5386 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
5387 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
5388 doing the same thing.
5389
5390* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
5391 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
5392
5393* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 5394 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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5395
5396* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
5397
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5398* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
5399 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
5400 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 5401 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 5402 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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5403
5404* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
5405 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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5407* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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5408 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
5409 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
5410 function.
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5411
5412* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
5413
5414* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
5415 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
5416 strings.
5417
5418* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
5419 and writing the utmp file.
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5421* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
5422 Thorsten Kukuk.
5423
5424* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
5425 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
5426 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
5427
5428* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
5429 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
5430
5431* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
5432 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5433 specification.
5434
5435* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5436 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5437 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5438 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5439
5440* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5441 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5442 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5443
5444* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5445 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5446 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5447 expression matcher.
5448
5449* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5450 functionality.
5451
5452* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5453 by Ulrich Drepper.
5454
5455* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5456
5457* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5458 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5459 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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5461Version 1.09
5462
5463* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5464
5465* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5466 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5467
5468* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5469 want to put themselves in the background.
5470
5471* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5472 run without an operating system.
5473
5474* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5475 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5476
5477* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5478 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5479
5480* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5481
5482* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5483 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5484 have YP (aka NIS).
5485
5486* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5487 conventions.
5488
5489* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5490 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5491\f
5492Version 1.08
5493
5494* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5495 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5496 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5497
5498* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5499 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5500
5501* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5502 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5503
5504* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5505
5506* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5507
5508* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5509 compatibility.
5510
5511* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5512 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5513 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5514
5515* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5516
5517* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5518 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5519 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5520
5521* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5522 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5523 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5524 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5525 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5526 on a block).
5527
5528* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5529 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5530 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5531 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5532 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5533 cross-compiler.
5534
5535* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5536 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5537\f
5538Version 1.07
5539
5540* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5541 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5542
5543* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5544 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5545 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5546
5547* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5548 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5549 address of the last character written.
5550
5551* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5552 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5553
5554* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5555 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5556
5557* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5558 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5559 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5560 you dereference this pointer.
5561
5562* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5563 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5564
5565* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5566 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5567 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5568 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5569
5570* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5571 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5572 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5573 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5574\f
5575Version 1.06
5576
5577* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5578 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5579 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5580 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 5581 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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5583* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5584
5585* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5586
5587* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5588 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5589
5590* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5591 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5592
5593* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5594 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5595
5596* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5597 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5598 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5599 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5600 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5601
5602* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5603 to the error code in `errno'.
5604
5605* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5606 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5607 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5608 malloc'd string.
5609
5610* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5611 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5612 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5613
5614* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5615 uniquely-named temporary file.
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5617Version 1.05
5618
5619* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5620 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5621 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5622
5623* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5624 characters.
5625
5626* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5627 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5628
5629* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5630\f
5631Version 1.04
5632
5633* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5634 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5635 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5636 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5637
5638* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5639 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5640 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5641
5642* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5643 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5644
5645* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5646 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5647 made itself into a shared library.
5648
5649* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5650 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5651
5652* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5653 with limited length.
5654
5655* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5656
5657* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5658
5659* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5660
5661* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5662 function for traversing a directory tree.
5663
5664* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5665 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5666 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5667 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5668
5669* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5670 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5671
5672* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5673
5674* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5675 things to your strings.
5676
5677* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5678
5679* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5680 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5681 supporting those systems.
5682
5683* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5684 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5685 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5686 configuration files.
5687
5688* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5689 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5690
5691* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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5693 in <strings.h>.)
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5694
5695* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5696 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5697 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5698 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5699 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5700 required storage is not available.
5701
5702* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5703 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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5704
5705* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5706 latest files released from Berkeley.
5707\f
5708----------------------------------------------------------------------
5709Copyright information:
5710
c9123888 5711Copyright (C) 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5712
5713 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5714 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5715 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5716 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5717
5718 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5719 of this document, or of portions of it,
5720 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5721 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
5722\f
5723Local variables:
5724version-control: never
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