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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
d614a753 2Copyright (C) 1992-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.32
9
10Major new features:
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12* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
13 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
14 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
15
16* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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18* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
19 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
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21* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
22 using the -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
23 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
24 this option.
25
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26Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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28* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
29 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
30 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
31 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
32 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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34* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
35 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
36 was not declared in any header file.
37
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38* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
39 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
40
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41Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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43* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
44 long double redirects.
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46Security related changes:
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48 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
49 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
50 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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52 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
53 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
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55 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
56 expanding ~user has been fixed.
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58The following bugs are resolved with this release:
59
60 [The release manager will add the list generated by
61 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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63Version 2.31
64
65Major new features:
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67* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
68 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
69 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
70 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
71 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
72 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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74* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
75 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
76 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
77 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
78
69ca4b54 79* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 80 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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81 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
82
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83* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
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85* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
86 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
87 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
88 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
89 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
90 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
91 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
92 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
93
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94Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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96* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
97 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
98 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
99 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
100 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
101 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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12cbde1d 103* The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
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104 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
105 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
106
107* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
108 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
109 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
110 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
111
112* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
113 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
114 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
115 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
116 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
117 made this no longer practical.
118
119 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
120 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
121 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
122 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
123 release.)
124
125 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
126 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
127 with the current time, use the localtime function.
128
129 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
130 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
131 using clock_gettime instead.
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133* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
134 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
135 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
136 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
137 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
138
139 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
140 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
141 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
142 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
143
144 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
145 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
146 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
147 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
148 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
149 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
150
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151 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
152 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
153 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
154 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
155 offset API.
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157* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
158 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
159 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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161 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
162 configurations.
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164* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
165 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
166 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
167 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
168 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
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170* For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
171 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
172 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
173 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
174 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
175 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
176 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
177 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
178
179 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
180 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
181
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182* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
183 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
184 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
185 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
186 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
187 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
188
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189Changes to build and runtime requirements:
190
a1bd5f86 191* It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
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192 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
193 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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195* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
196 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
197 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
198
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199Security related changes:
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201 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
202 environment variable during program execution after a security
203 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
204 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
205 program. Reported by Marcin Koƛcielnicki.
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206
207The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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209 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
210 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
211 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
212 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
213 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
214 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
215 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
216 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
217 linking failure
218 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
219 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
220 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
221 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
222 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
223 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
224 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
225 constructors/destructors is not fatal
226 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
227 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
228 7408-2005
229 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
230 with localedef
231 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
232 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
233 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
234 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
235 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
236 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
237 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
238 utmp entries
239 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
240 ABSOLUTE ABI
241 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
242 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
243 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
244 (stringop-overflow error)
245 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
246 functions other can lead to crashes
247 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
248 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
249 unconditionally
250 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
251 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
252 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
253 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
254 still can fail with an error
255 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
256 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
257 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
258 initialized correctly
259 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
260 -frewrite-includes
261 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
262 value to an unsigned
263 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
264 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
265 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
266 protection
267 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
268 ifunc variant.
269 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
270 al. for Clang++
271 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
272 (Slovenian)
273 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
274 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
275 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
276 with -std=c11
277 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
278 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
279 part
280 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
281 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
282 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
283 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
284 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
285 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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288Version 2.30
289
290Major new features:
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292* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
293 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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294 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
295
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296* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
297 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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299* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
300 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
301 to the callback function.
302
51ea67d5 303* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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305* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
306 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
307 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
308
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309* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
310
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311* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
312 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
313 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
314 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
315 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
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317* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
318 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
319 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
320 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
321 link time reference, is gone.
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323* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
324 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
325 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
326 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
327 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
328 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
329 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
330 the clock choice at initialization time).
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332* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
333 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
334 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
335
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336Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
337
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338* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
339 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
340 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
341 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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342 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
343 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
344 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
345 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
346 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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348* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
349 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
350 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
351 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
352 since glibc 2.17.
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354* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
355 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
356
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357* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
358 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
359
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360* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
361 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
362
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363* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
364 BIND_NOW flag.
365
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366* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
367 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
368 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
369
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370* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
371 header have been removed.
372
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373* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
374 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
375 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
376 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
377
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378Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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380* GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
381
382 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
383 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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385Security related changes:
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387 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
388 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
389 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
390 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
391 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
392 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
393 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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395 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
396 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
397 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
398
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401 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
402 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
403 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
404 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
405 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
406 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
407 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
408 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
409 invalid input drops valid char
410 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
411 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
412 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
413 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
414 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
415 malloc.h.
416 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
417 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
418 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
419 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
420 functions
421 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
422 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
423 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
424 for long double = double
425 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
426 long double = double
427 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
428 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
429 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
430 long timeouts
431 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar ouput to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
432 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
433 checking for NULL.
434 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
435 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
436 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
437 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
438 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
439 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
440 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
441 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
442 not the default "nor"
443 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
444 false positives, change to modern flexible array
445 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
446 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
447 compiler barriers.
448 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
449 unnecessary librt dependencies
450 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
451 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
452 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
453 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
454 unsorted chunk
455 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
456 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
457 to R_SPARC_H44
458 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
459 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
460 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
461 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
462 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
463 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
464 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
465 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
466 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
467 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
468 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
469 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
470 was not used
471 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
472 tests
473 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
474 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
475 time_t changes
476 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
477 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
478 kernels and break testing
479 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
480 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
481 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
482 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
483 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
484 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
485 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
486 -O3 -march=skylake
487 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
488 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
489 crash
490 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
491 linked glibc
492 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
493 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
494 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
495 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
496 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
497 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
498 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
499 always implemented in the same library
500 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
501 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
502 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
503 testroot
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508Major new features:
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511 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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514 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
515 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
516 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
517 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
518 configured location.
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424c4f60 520* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
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523 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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526 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
527 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
528 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
529 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
530 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
531 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
532 process actually does not use HTM).
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535 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
536 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
537 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
538 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
539 of the same name.
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542 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
543 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 544 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
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547* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
548 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
549 supported:
550 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
551 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
552
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554 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
555 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
556 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
557 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
558 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
559 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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562 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
563 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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568 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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571 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
572 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
573 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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576 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
577 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
578 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
579 structures.
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582 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
583 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
584 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
585 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
586 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
587
588 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
589 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
590 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
591 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
592 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
593
594 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
595 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
596 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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599
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603 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
604
605 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
606 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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610 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
611 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
612 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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615 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
616 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
617 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
618 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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620 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
621 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
622 or command injection issues in applications.
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626 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
627 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
628 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
629 thousands
630 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
631 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
632 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
633 --param options)
634 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
635 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
636 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
637 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
638 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
639 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
640 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
641 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
642 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
643 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
644 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
645 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
646 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
647 pointer argument is non-NULL
648 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
649 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
650 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
651 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
652 multithreads call popen
653 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
654 and pthread_create fails.
655 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
656 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
657 constructor
658 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
659 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
660 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
661 source tree
662 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
663 float
664 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
665 one error
666 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
667 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
668 linker
669 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
670 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
671 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
672 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
673 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
674 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
675 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
676 filesystems
677 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
678 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
679 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
680 functions
681 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
682 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
683 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
684 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
685 have wrong type
686 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
687 wrong type
688 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
689 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
690 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
691 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
692 threads
693 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
694 start.S
695 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
696 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
697 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
698 powerpc64le
699 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
700 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
701 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
702 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
703 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
704 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
705 strftime
706 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
707 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
708 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
709 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
710 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
711 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
712 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
713 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
714 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
715 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
716 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
717 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
718 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
719 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
720 tcache size
721 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
722 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
723 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
724 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
725 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
726 (CVE-2018-19591)
727 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
728 nearest rounding mode
729 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
730 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
731 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
732 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
733 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
734 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
735 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
736 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
737 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
738 error
739 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
740 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
741 using GCC 8
742 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
743 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
744 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
745 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
746 ppc64le
747 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
748 expected result
749 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
750 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
751 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
752 sigaltstack
753 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
754 answers will be rejected)
755 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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760Major new features:
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763 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
764 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
765 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
766 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
767 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
768 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
769 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
770 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
771 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
772 archive or binary locales.
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775 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
776 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
777 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
778 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
779 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
780 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
781 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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783 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
784 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
785 validated for i686.
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788 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
789 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
790 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
791 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
792 field) to indicate such support is required.
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795 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
796 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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799 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
800
801 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
802 fMxaddfNx functions.
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805 fMxsubfNx functions.
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808 fMxmulfNx functions.
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810 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
811 fMxdivfNx functions.
812
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df467d22 814 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
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817 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 819* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 820 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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823 patches.
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826 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
827 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
828 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
829 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
830 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
831 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
832 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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835 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
836 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
837 the fstatat64 function.
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840 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
841 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
842 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
843 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
844 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
845 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
846 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
847 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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850 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
851 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
852 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
853 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
854 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
855 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
856 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
857 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
858 results in a load failure now.
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861 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
862 <threads.h>:
863
864 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
865 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
866
867 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
868 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
869
870 - call_once for function call synchronization.
871
872 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
873 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
874
875 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
876
877 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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882 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
883 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
884
885* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
886 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
887 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
888 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
889 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
890 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
891
892* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
893 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
894 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
895 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
896 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
897 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
898 (Bug #1190.)
899
900* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
901 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
902 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
903 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
904 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
905 further explanation.
906
907 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
908 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
909 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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914 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
915 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
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918 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
919 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
920 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
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923 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
924 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
925 for this function instead.
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928 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
929 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
930
931* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
932 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
933 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
934 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
935
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937 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
938 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
939 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
940 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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942* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
943 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
944 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
945 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
946 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
947 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
948 such as libgcrypt.
949
950* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
951 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
952 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
953 enabled.
954
955* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
956 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
957 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
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960 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
961 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
962 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
963 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
964 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
965
966 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
967 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
968 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
969 behavior in a future release.
970
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972
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975Security related changes:
976
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978 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
979 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
980 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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982 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
983 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
984
985 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
986 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
987 Izbyshev.
988
989 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
990 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
991 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
992
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994
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995 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
996 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
997 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
998 when __WORDSIZE != 64
999 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1000 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1001 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1002 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1003 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1004 14651
1005 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1006 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1007 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1008 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1009 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1010 conversion is given
1011 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1012 date
1013 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1014 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1015 scope with -O1 and higher
1016 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1017 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1018 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1019 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1020 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1021 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1022 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1023 horrible machine code)
1024 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1025 last constant.
1026 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1027 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1028 symbols
1029 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1030 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1031 defined
1032 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1033 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1034 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1035 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1036 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1037 fpscr.c'
1038 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1039 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1040 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1041 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1042 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1043 the base address
1044 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1045 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1046 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1047 open_verify
1048 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1049 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1050 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1051 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1052 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1053 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1054 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1055 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1056 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1057 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1058 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1059 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1060 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1061 dlopen
1062 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1063 AT_SECURE=1
1064 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1065 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1066 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1067 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1068 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1069 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1070 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1071 for Spanish with CLDR
1072 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1073 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1074 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1075 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1076 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1077 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1078 es_BO
1079 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1080 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
1081 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1082 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1083 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1084 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1085 dlopen failures
1086 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1087 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1088 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1089 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1090 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1091 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1092 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1093 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1094 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1095 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1096 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1097 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1098 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1099 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1100 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1101 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1102 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1103 makecontext
1104 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1105 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1106 required
1107 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1108 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1109 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1110 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1111 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1112 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1113 disabled
1114 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1115 failure
1116 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1117 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1118 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1119 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1120 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1121 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1122 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1123 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1124 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1125 and libc build with -Os)
1126 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1127 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1128 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1129 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1130 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1131 that changes /etc/passwd
1132 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1133 (CVE-2018-11237)
1134 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1135 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1136 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1137 posix/regcomp.c
1138 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1139 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1140 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1141 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1142 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1143 AT_SECURE
1144 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1145 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1146 parser.c
1147 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1148 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1149 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1150 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1151 directed rounding
1152 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1153 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1154 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1155 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1156 lookup
1157 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1158 interposition
1159 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1160 DSO boundaries.
1161 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1162 <linux/time.h>
1163 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1164 checking
1165 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1166 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1167 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1168 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1169 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1170 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1171 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1172 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1173 processors
1174 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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1177Version 2.27
1178
1179Major new features:
1180
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1181* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1182 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 1183 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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1184 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1185 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1186 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1187 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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1188 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1189 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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ac817e08 1191* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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1192 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1193 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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1195* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
1196
4cf82d23 1197* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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1199* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1200 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1201 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1202 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1203 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1204 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1205 from a security and performance perspective.
1206
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1207* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1208 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1209 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1210 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1211
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1213 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
1214 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1215 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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1216 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1217
a23aa5b7 1218* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
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1220 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1221 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1222 _Float128.
1223
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1224* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1225 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1226 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 1227
4bab0224 1228* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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1230* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1231 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1232 pkey_get.
1233
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1234* The copy_file_range function was added.
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1236* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1237
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1238* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1239 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1240 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
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1243 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1244 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1245 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1246 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1247 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1248 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1249
1250 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1251 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1252 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1253 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1254 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1255 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1256 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1257
1258 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1259 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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1261 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1262 respectively.
1263
1264 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1265 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1266 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1267 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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1269 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1270 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1271 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1272
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1274 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 1275 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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1278 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1279 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1280
1281 - rv64imac lp64
1282 - rv64imafdc lp64
1283 - rv64imafdc lp64d
1284
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1286
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1288 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
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1291 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1292 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1293 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1294 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1295 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1296 fix this.
1297
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1298* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1299 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1300 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1301
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1302* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1303 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1304 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1305 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1306 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1307 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1308 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1309 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1310 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1311 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1312 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1313 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1314 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1315 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1316 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1317 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1318 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1319 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1320 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1321 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1322 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1323 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1324 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1325 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1326 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1327 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
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1330 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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1333 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1334 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1335 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1336 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1337 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1338 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
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1341 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1342 exp10l for these functions instead.
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1345 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1346 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
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1349 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1350 ignored.
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1352* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1353 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1354 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1355 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
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1358 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1359
34eb4157
FW
1360* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1361 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1362
754034c4
JM
1363* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1364 programs.
1365
ed95f611
AZ
1366* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1367
48a8f832
ZW
1368* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1369 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1370 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1371 instead.
1372
1373 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1374 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1375 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1376 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1377 use, but predates the bits convention.
1378
00cdcf5a
SP
1379Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1380
1faaf703
JB
1381* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1382 subdirectory.
00cdcf5a
SP
1383
1384Security related changes:
1385
403143e1
FW
1386 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1387 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1388 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1389 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1390 script.)
00cdcf5a 1391
822f523b
FW
1392 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1393 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1394 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1395 Reported by Tim RĂŒhsen.
c369d66e 1396
914c9994
FW
1397 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1398 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1399 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1400 of service.
1401
15e84c63
AJ
1402 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1403 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
a159b53f
PE
1404 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim RĂŒhsen.
1405
37ac8e63
FW
1406 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1407 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1408 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1409 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1410
8a0b17e4
FW
1411 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1412 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1413 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1414 Qualys.
1415
3ff3dfa5
FW
1416 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1417 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1418 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1419 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1420 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1421
3e3c904d
AJ
1422 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1423 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1424 current directory.
1425
52a713fd
DL
1426 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1427 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1428 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1429
4590634f
FW
1430 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1431 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1432 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1433
71aa429b
FW
1434 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1435 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1436 small, instead of NULL.
1437
00cdcf5a
SP
1438The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1439
242cbc90
DL
1440 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1441 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1442 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1443 locale
1444 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1445 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1446 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1447 cases
1448 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1449 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1450 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1451 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1452 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1453 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1454 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1455 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1456 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1457 "Bangla"
1458 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1459 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1460 width Latin characters
1461 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1462 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1463 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1464 letters
1465 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1466 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1467 (CVE-2009-5064)
1468 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1469 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1470 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1471 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1472 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1473 if malloc succeeded
1474 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1475 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1476 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1477 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1478 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1479 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1480 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1481 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1482 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1483 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1484 U+309A
1485 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1486 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1487 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1488 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1489 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1490 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1491 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1492 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new MĂ­skitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1493 for Nicaragua
1494 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1495 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1496 are not found.
1497 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1498 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1499 access
1500 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1501 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1502 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1503 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1504 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1505 __regcall calling convention
1506 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1507 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1508 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1509 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1510 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1511 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1512 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1513 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1514 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1515 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1516 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1517 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1518 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1519 locale
1520 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1521 protector=all
1522 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1523 wcwidth
1524 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
1525 consistency check failures
1526 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
1527 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
1528 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
1529 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
1530 PIE
1531 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
1532 locales
1533 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
1534 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
1535 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
1536 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
1537 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
1538 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
1539 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
1540 on memory allocation failure
1541 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
1542 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
1543 the suspect)
1544 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
1545 default (i386)
1546 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
1547 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
1548 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
1549 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
1550 instead of EAI_NODATA
1551 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
1552 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
1553 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
1554 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
1555 implementation
1556 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
1557 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
1558 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
1559 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
1560 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
1561 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
1562 allocation in syscall loops)
1563 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
1564 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
1565 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
1566 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
1567 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
1568 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
1569 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
1570 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
1571 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
1572 occur with -O3
1573 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
1574 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1575 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
1576 amounts)
1577 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
1578 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
1579 niu_NZ
1580 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
1581 checks
1582 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
1583 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
1584 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
1585 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
1586 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
1587 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
1588 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
1589 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
1590 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
1591 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
1592 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
1593 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
1594 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
1595 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
1596 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
1597 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
1598 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
1599 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
1600 parsing after OOM
1601 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
1602 object
1603 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
1604 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
1605 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
1606 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
1607 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
1608 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
1609 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
1610 ppc64le
1611 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
1612 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
1613 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
1614 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
1615 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
1616 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
1617 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
1618 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
1619 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
1620 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
1621 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
1622 math_force_eval
1623 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
1624 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
1625 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1626 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1627 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1628 the svid compat wrapper
1629 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1630 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1631 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1632 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1633 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1634 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1635 --verbose.
1636 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1637 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1638 to 2.26
1639 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1640 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1641 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1642 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1643 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1644 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1645 (CVE-2017-15804)
1646 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1647 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1648 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1649 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1650 failure."
1651 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1652 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1653 -m32
1654 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1655 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1656 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1657 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1658 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1659 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1660 inside the ASCII printable range
1661 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1662 -mlong-double-64
1663 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1664 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1665 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1666 Internet
1667 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1668 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1669 backslash
1670 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1671 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1672 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1673 heaps in an arena
1674 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1675 networking interface
1676 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1677 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1678 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1679 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1680 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1681 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1682 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1683 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1684 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1685 order
1686 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1687 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1688 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1689 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1690 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1691 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1692 same as for Croatian
1693 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1694 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1695 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1696 for initial thread"
1697 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1698 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1699 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1700 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1701 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1702 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1703 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1704 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1705 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1706 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1707 modified in case of success
1708 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1709 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1710 success
1711 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1712 stack-protector=all
1713 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1714 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1715 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1716 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1717 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1718 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1719 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1720 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1721 adding it on top
1722 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1723 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1724 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1725 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1726 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1727 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1728 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1729 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1730 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1731 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1732 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1733 elision and tunables
1734 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1735 "invalid" exception
1736 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1737 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1738 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1739 exception
1740 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1741 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1742 power4
1743 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1744 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1745 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1746 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1747 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1748 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1749 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1750 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1751 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
00cdcf5a 1752
58557c22
SP
1753\f
1754Version 2.26
1755
2b2ccd0c
ZW
1756Major new features:
1757
d5c3fafc
DD
1758* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1759 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1760 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1761 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1762 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1763 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1764 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1765
925fac77
MF
1766* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1767 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 1768 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
a0e52598
MF
1769 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1770 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1771 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1772 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
58557c22 1773
2b2ccd0c
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1774* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1775 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1776 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 1777
2b2ccd0c 1778* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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1780 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1781 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1782 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 1783
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1784 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1785 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1786 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1787 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1788 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 1789
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1790 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1791 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1792 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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1794* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1795 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 1796
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1797* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1798 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1799 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1800 Dennis Wölfing and RĂŒdiger Sonderfeld.
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1802* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1803 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1804 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1805 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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1807* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1808 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1809 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1810 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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1812* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1813 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1814 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 1815
2b2ccd0c 1816* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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1817 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1818 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1819 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 1820
2b2ccd0c 1821 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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1822 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1823 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1824 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1825 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1826
1827 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1828 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1829 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1830 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1831 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1832 interfaces should be used instead.
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1834Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1835
1836* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1837 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1838 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1839 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1840 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1841 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1842 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1843 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1844
1845* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1846 removed.
1847
1848* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
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1850 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1851 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1852
1853* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1854 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1855 default.
1856
1857 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1858 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1859 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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1861 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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1863 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1864 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1865 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1866 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1867
1868* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1869 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1870 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1871 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1872
1873* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1874 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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1876* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1877 exported by accident.
1878
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1879* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1880 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1881 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1882
1883* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1884 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1885 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1886 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1887
1888* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1889
1890* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1891
1892* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1893 free instead.
1894
1895* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1896 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1897
1898* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1899 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1900
1901* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1902 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1903 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1904 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1905 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1906 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1907 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1908 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1909
1910* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1911 synced with the kernel:
1912
1913 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1914 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1915
1916 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1917 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1918 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1919
1920 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1921 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1922
1923Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1924
1925* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1926 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1927 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1928
7e368000 1929* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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1931* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
1932 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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1934 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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1935 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1936 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1937 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 1938 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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1940Security related changes:
1941
e14a2772 1942* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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1943 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1944
1945* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1946 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1947
1948* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1949 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1950 (CVE-2010-3192).
1951
1952* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1953 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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1955The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1956
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1957 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1958 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1959 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1960 fields
1961 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1962 (CVE-2010-3192)
1963 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1964 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1965 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1966 ld.bfd is available
1967 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1968 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1969 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1970 x86 and other generic code
1971 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1972 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1973 incorrect
1974 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1975 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1976 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1977 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1978 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1979 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1980 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1981 resolver
1982 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1983 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1984 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1985 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1986 chillu characters
1987 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1988 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1989 receiving data
1990 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1991 whitespace
1992 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1993 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1994 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale AwajĂșn / Aguaruna (agr)
1995 for Peru
1996 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1997 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1998 failures consistently
1999 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2000 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2001 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2002 frame-pointer on i386
2003 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2004 register
2005 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2006 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2007 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2008 generic c code is used
2009 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2010 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2011 around 4000
2012 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2013 (CVE-2017-12133)
2014 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2015 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2016 with -lieee
2017 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2018 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2019 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2020 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2021 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2022 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2023 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2024 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2025 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2026 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2027 remove()
2028 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2029 checked for errors.
2030 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2031 new posix_spawn implementation
2032 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2033 leads to lower CPU frequency
2034 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2035 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2036 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2037 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2038 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2039 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2040 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2041 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2042 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2043 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2044 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2045 not support gethostbyname4_r
2046 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2047 switching
2048 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2049 arenas
2050 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2051 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2052 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2053 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2054 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2055 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2056 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2057 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2058 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2059 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2060 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2061 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2062 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2063 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2064 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2065 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2066 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2067 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2068 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2069 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2070 retry value
2071 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2072 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2073 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2074 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2075 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2076 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2077 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2078 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2079 [21537] libc:
2080 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2081 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2082 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2083 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2084 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2085 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2086 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2087 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2088 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2089 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2090 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2091 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2092 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2093 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2094 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2095 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2096 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2097 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2098 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2099 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2100 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2101 issue on x86-64
2102 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2103 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2104 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2105 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2106 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2107 construction
2108 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2109 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2110 between_2_3
2111 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2112 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2113 conditions
2114 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2115 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2116 Hindi Locale
2117 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2118 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2119 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2120 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2121 locale
2122 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2123 leading to relocation crash
2124 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2125 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2126 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2127 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2128 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2129 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2130 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2131 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2132 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2133 locale
2134 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2135 locale
2136 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2137 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2138 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2139 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2140 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2141 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2142 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2143 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2144 strings
2145 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2146 protector=all
2147 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2148 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
2149 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2150 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2151 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2152 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2153 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2154 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2155 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2156 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2157 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2158 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2159 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2160 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2161 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2162 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2163 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2164 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2165 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2166 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2167 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2168 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2169 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2170 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2171 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2172 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2173 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2174 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2175 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2176 with unicode 9.0
2177 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2178 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2179 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2180 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2181 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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2185
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2186* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2187 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2188 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2189 Library.
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2192 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 2193 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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2195
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2196* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2197 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2198 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2199 the GNU C Library.
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2202 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2203 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2204 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2205 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2206 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2207 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2208 will not.
2209
2210 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2211 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2212 many years.
2213
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2214* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2215 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2216 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2217
2218 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2219 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2220 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2221 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2222 problem.
2223
ec94343f 2224* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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2225 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2226 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 2227
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2228* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2229 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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2230 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2231 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2232 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2233 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2234 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2235 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2236 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2237 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2238 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2239 WINT_WIDTH.
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2241* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2242
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2243 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2244
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2245 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2246 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2247 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 2248
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2249 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2250 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2251
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2252 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2253 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2254
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2255 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2256
29cb9293 2257 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 2258
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2259 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2260 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 2261
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2262 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2263
eb3c12c7 2264 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 2265 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 2266
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2267* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2268 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2269
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2270* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2271 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2272 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2273
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2274* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2275 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2276 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2277 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2278 effects of the memory clear).
2279
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2280* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2281 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2282 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2283 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2284
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2285* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2286 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2287 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2288 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2289 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2290 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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2292* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2293 have been added.
2294
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2295* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2296 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2297 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2298 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2299 as large as several megabytes.
2300
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2301* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2302 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2303 been removed.
2304
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2305* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2306 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2307 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2308 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2309 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2310 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2311 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2312
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2313* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2314 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2315 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2316 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2317
099191b1 2318* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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2319 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2320 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2321 Internet.
2322
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2323* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2324 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2325 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 2326
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2327* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2328 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2329 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2330 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2331
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2332* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2333 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2334 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2335 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2336 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2337
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2338* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2339 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2340 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2341 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2342 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2343
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2344* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2345 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2346 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2347 did not reflect that.
2348
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2349* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2350 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2351 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2352 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2353 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2354 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2355 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2356 'gcc/config.gcc'.
2357
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2358* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2359 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2360 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2361 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2362
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2363* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2364 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2365 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2366 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2367
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2368* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2369 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2370 guarantees.
2371
2372* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2373 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2374 make state changes.
2375
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2376Security related changes:
2377
fc82b0a2 2378* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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2379 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2380 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2381 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 2382 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 2383
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2384* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2385 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2386 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2387 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2388 (CVE-2015-5180)
2389
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2390The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2391
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2392 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
2393 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2394 protector-all
2395 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2396 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2397 before it started waiting
2398 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2399 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2400 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2401 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2402 wrong type
2403 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2404 library linked with pthread
2405 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2406 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2407 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2408 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2409 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2410 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2411 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2412 when it shouldnt
2413 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2414 not
2415 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2416 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2417 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2418 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2419 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2420 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2421 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2422 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2423 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2424 termination
2425 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2426 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2427 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2428 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2429 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2430 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2431 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2432 causes a segmentation fault
2433 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2434 linking
2435 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2436 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2437 uninitialized GOT
2438 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2439 versions
2440 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2441 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2442 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2443 is always true.
2444 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2445 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2446 modes
2447 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2448 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2449 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2450 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2451 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2452 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2453 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2454 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2455 libpthread.a
2456 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2457 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2458 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2459 _res_hconf
2460 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2461 information.
2462 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2463 penalty
2464 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2465 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2466 cause transition penalty
2467 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2468 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2469 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2470 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2471 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2472 mcount.oS)
2473 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2474 Checking
2475 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2476 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2477 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2478 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2479 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2480 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2481 multi-arch
2482 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2483 (RES_USEBSTRING)
2484 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2485 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2486 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2487 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2488 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2489 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2490 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2491 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2492 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2493 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2494 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2495 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2496 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2497 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2498 glibc
2499 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2500 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2501 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2502 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2503 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2504 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2505 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2506 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2507 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2508 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2509 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2510 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2511 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2512 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2513 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2514 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2515 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2516 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2517 RES_USE_INET6
2518 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2519 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2520 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2521 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2522 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2523 wrong condition
2524 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2525 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
2526 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
2527 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
2528 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
2529 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
2530 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
2531 clang
2532 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
2533 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
2534 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
2535 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
2536 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 2537\f
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2538Version 2.24
2539
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2540* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2541 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
2542 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
2543 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
2544 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
2545 architectures.
2546
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MF
2547* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
2548 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
2549 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 2550
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2551* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
2552 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
2553
b49ab5f4
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2554* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
2555 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
2556 instead of “union wait”.
2557
ced8f893
SG
2558* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
2559 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
2560 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
2561 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
2562 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
2563 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
2564 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
2565
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2566* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
2567 API.
2568
b7a9b7b0
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2569* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
2570 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
2571 drop it.
6a54bcda 2572
41a359e2
RS
2573* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
2574 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
2575 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
2576 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
2577 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
2578 extensions.
2579
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2580Security related changes:
2581
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FW
2582* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
2583 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
2584 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
2585
4ab2ab03
FW
2586* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
2587 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
2588 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
2589 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 2590
5171f307
FW
2591* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
2592 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
2593 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
2594
bc779a1a
FW
2595* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
2596 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
2597 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
2598
fab38231
FW
2599* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
2600 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
2601 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
2602 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
2603
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2604The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2605
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2606 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
2607 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
2608 of MS-DOS.
2609 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
2610 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
2611 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
2612 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
2613 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
2614 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
2615 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
2616 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
2617 CLDR data
2618 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
2619 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
2620 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
2621 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
2622 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
2623 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
2624 romanisation
2625 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2626 and +/-
2627 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2628 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2629 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2630 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2631 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2632 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2633 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2634 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2635 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2636 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2637 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2638 all locales
2639 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2640 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2641 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2642 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2643 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2644 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2645 execute
2646 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2647 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2648 -Wsystem-headers
2649 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2650 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2651 Romanian locale data
2652 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2653 symbol
2654 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2655 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2656 language
2657 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2658 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2659 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2660 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2661 machine
2662 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2663 description
2664 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2665 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2666 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2667 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2668 when using RTLD_NEXT
2669 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2670 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2671 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2672 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2673 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2674 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2675 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2676 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2677 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2678 Excavator core
2679 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2680 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2681 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2682 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2683 double range
2684 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2685 part zero incorrect
2686 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2687 equality tests
2688 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2689 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2690 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2691 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2692 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2693 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2694 glibc-2.22
2695 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2696 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2697 'tst-numeric.c'
2698 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2699 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2700 low part
2701 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2702 result
2703 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2704 unaligned stack
2705 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2706 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2707 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2708 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2709 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2710 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2711 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2712 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2713 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2714 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2715 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2716 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2717 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2718 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2719 modes
2720 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2721 server addresses
2722 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2723 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2724 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2725 response to getaddrinfo
2726 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2727 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2728 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2729 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2730 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2731 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2732 sometimes incorrect
2733 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2734 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2735 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2736 record types
2737 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2738 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2739 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2740 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2741 (CVE-2016-3075)
2742 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2743 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2744 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2745 resolving symbols
2746 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2747 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2748 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2749 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2750 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2751 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2752 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2753 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2754 gethosts
2755 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2756 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2757 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2758 (CVE-2016-3706)
2759 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2760 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2761 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2762 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2763 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2764 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2765 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2766 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2767 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2768 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2769 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2770 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2771 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2772 executable
2773 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2774 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2775 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2776 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2777 XPG3
2778 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2779 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2780 (CVE-2016-4429)
2781 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2782 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2783 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2784 AS not supporting AVX512
2785 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2786 sNaN argument
2787 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2788 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2789 argument
2790 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2791 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2792 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2793 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2794 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2795 eax=0x80000001
2796 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2797 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2798 subnormals
2799 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2800 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2801 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2802 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2803 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2804 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2805 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2806 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2807 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2808 input
2809 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2810 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2811 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2812 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2813 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2814 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2815 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2816 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2817 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2818 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2819 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2820 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2821 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2822 double rounding
2823 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2824 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2825 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2826 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2827 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2828 (Only arm/linux)
2829 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2830 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2831 fallbacks
2832 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2833 "invalid" exceptions
2834 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2835 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2836 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2837 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2838 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2839 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2840 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2841 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2842 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 2843\f
aeb47bbc
DM
2844Version 2.23
2845
23256f5e
MF
2846* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2847 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2848 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2849 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2850 89, 16061, and 18568.
2851
2359035a
FW
2852* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2853 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2854 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2855 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2856 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2857 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2858 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2859
8b7b7f75
MW
2860* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2861 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2862 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2863
2eecc8af
FW
2864* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2865 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2866 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2867 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2868 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2869 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2870 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2871
a62719ba
FW
2872* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2873 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2874 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2875 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2876 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 2877 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
2878 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2879 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 2880
bc148ca1
MF
2881* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2882 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2883 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2884 independent of the GNU C Library.
2885
1c70b6f1
ZW
2886* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2887 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 2888
eed3e1eb
JM
2889* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2890 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2891 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2892 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2893 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2894 Linux kernel.
2895
1efad39b
SL
2896* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2897 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 2898
d709042a
JM
2899* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2900 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2901 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2902 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2903 defining their own copy.
2904
b08b4218
JM
2905* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2906 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2907 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 2908
8f5e8b01
JM
2909Security related changes:
2910
6400ae6e
FW
2911* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2912 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2913
2914* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2915 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2916 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2917 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2918 (CVE-2015-8777)
2919
2920* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2921 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2922
2923* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2924 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
2925
8f5e8b01
JM
2926* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2927 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 2928 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 2929
e9db92d3
CD
2930* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2931 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2932 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2933 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2934 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2935 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2936 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2937 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2938 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2939 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2940 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2941 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2942 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2943
ad372e29 2944The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 2945
ad372e29
AZ
2946 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate ÊÞÄ
2947 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2948 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2949 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2950 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2951 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2952 use `mkstemp'
2953 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2954 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2955 overflow/underflow errors
2956 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2957 overflow/underflow
2958 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2959 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2960 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2961 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2962 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2963 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2964 are not contiguous
2965 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2966 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2967 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2968 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2969 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2970 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2971 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2972 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2973 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2974 all exceptions
2975 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2976 arguments
2977 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2978 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2979 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2980 should include
2981 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2982 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2983 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2984 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2985 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2986 GNU/Linux
2987 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2988 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2989 arguments
2990 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2991 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2992 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2993 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2994 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2995 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2996 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2997 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2998 rounding results
2999 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3000 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3001 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3002 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3003 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3004 fails
3005 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3006 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3007 block boundary
3008 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3009 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3010 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3011 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3012 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3013 4.7?
3014 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3015 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3016 (related to lock elision)
3017 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3018 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3019 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3020 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3021 (CVE-2015-8779)
3022 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3023 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3024 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3025 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3026 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3027 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3028 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3029 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3030 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3031 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3032 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3033 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3034 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3035 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3036 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3037 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3038 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3039 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3040 contains a vector instruction exception.
3041 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3042 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3043 locales
3044 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3045 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3046 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3047 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3048 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3049 missing break ?
3050 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3051 32bit processes
3052 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3053 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3054 infinity
3055 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3056 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3057 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3058 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3059 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3060 be forced unloaded
3061 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3062 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3063 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3064 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3065 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3066 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3067 statically too large
3068 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3069 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3070 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3071 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3072 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3073 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3074 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3075 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3076 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3077 FUTEX_SHARED
3078 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3079 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3080 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3081 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3082 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3083 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3084 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3085 opendir()
3086 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3087 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3088 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3089 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3090 signgam
3091 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3092 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3093 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3094 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3095 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3096 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3097 dependencies
3098 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3099 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3100 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3101 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3102 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3103 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3104 (CVE-2015-8776)
3105 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3106 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3107 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3108 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3109 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3110 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3111 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3112 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3113 contention
3114 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3115 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3116 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3117 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3118 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3119 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3120 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3121 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3122 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3123 rounding modes
3124 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3125 ILP32
3126 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3127 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3128 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3129 threshold
3130 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3131 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3132 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3133 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3134 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3135 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3136 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3137 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3138 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3139 pthread_setaffinity_np
3140 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3141 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3142 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3143 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3144 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3145 prelink
3146 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3147 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3148 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3149 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3150 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3151 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3152 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3153 bits/mathcalls.h
3154 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3155 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3156 for C99-based standards
3157 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3158 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3159 math-only
3160 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3161 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3162 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3163 disabled
3164 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3165 "inexact" exceptions
3166 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3167 arguments
3168 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3169 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3170 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3171 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3172 rules
3173 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3174 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3175 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3176 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3177 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3178 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3179 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3180 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3181 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3182 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3183 from 32bit
3184 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3185 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3186 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3187 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3188 subnormals
3189 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3190 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3191 error on 32-bit architectures
3192 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3193 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3194 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3195 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3196 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3197 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3198 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3199 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3200 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3201 -Os
3202 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3203 CPU's.
3204 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3205 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3206 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3207 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3208 architectures
3209 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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1c7a4a51
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3211Version 2.22
3212
3213* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3214
3df5cd98 3215 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
3216 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3217 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3218 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3219 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3220 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3221 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3222 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3223 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3224 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3225 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3226 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3227 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3228 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3229 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3230 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3231 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3232 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
3233 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3234 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 3235
f7fba805
SL
3236* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3237 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3238
2959eda9
AS
3239* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3240 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3241 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3242 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3243 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3244 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 3245
42261ad7
FW
3246* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3247 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3248 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3249 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3250 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3251
afcd9480
AM
3252* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3253 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3254 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3255
4a4839c9
AO
3256* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3257 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3258 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3259 17998.
3260
b13b96ca
AS
3261* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3262 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3263 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
3264
3265* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
3266 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3267 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
3268 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3269 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
3270 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3271 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 3272 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
3273
3274* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3275 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3276 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3277 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
3278
3279* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3280 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3281 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
3282
3283* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3284 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
3285
3286* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3287 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3288 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3289
a03ba363 3290 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
3291 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3292 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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3294Version 2.21
3295
3296* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3297
042e1521 3298 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
3299 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3300 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3301 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3302 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3303 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3304 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3305 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3306 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3307 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3308 17892.
3309
46d54873
FW
3310* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3311 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3312 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3313 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3314 intended.
042e1521
CD
3315
3316* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3317 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3318 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3319 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3320 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3321 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 3322
522e6ee3
CLT
3323* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3324
d3b00f46
AZ
3325* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3326 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 3327 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 3328
8d2c0a59
AZ
3329* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3330 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3331 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3332 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3333 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3334 effects being visible outside transactions.
3335
dc400d7b
RE
3336* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3337 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 3338
0f9dfe04
L
3339* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3340
a39208bd
CD
3341* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3342 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 3343 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
3344 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3345 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 3346
a5357b7c
JL
3347* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3348 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3349
e54db0ea
AM
3350* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3351 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3352 format.
11e3417a 3353
4863355a
JM
3354* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3355 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3356 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3357
a4ecc9eb
JM
3358* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3359 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3360
0d560bbf 3361* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
3362
3363* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3364 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3365 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3366 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
3367
3368* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3369 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
3370
3371* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3372 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3373 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3374 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3375 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3376 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3377 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3378 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3379 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3380 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3381 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3382 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3383 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3384
3385 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3386 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3387 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3388 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3389 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 3390\f
d5b396c1
AM
3391Version 2.20
3392
3393* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3394
6a9350c8
JM
3395 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3396 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3397 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3398 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3399 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3400 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3401 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3402 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3403 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3404 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3405 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3406 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3407 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3408 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3409 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 3410
95ee7fb1
SL
3411* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3412 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3413 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3414 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3415 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 3416 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
3417 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3418 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3419 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3420 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3421
0961f7e1
JL
3422* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3423 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3424 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3425 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3426 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 3427
f940b965
RE
3428* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3429
d0f5b3f8
JM
3430* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3431 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3432
d6fe5e58
JM
3433* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3434 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3435 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3436 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3437 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3438 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3439
464263cc
JM
3440* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3441 from ports.
c941736c
JM
3442
3443* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3444 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3445 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3446 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3447 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3448 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3449 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
3450
3451* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
3452
3453* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3454 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3455 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3456 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3457 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3458 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3459 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
3460
3461* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3462 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3463 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3464 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3465 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
3466
3467* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3468 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3469 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
3470
3471* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3472 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3473 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3474 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
3475
3476* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3477 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3478 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3479 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3480 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3481 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3482 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3483 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
3484
3485* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3486 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3487 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3488 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3489 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3490 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3491 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3492 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3493 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
3494
3495* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3496 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3497 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3498 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3499 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 3500 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
3501
3502* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3503 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3504 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3505 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
3506\f
3507Version 2.19
3508
3509* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3510
fd2f9486
JM
3511 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3512 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3513 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3514 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3515 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3516 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3517 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3518 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3519 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3520 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
3521 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3522 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3523 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
3524 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
3525 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
3526 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
3527 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
3528 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 3529
11520a57
CD
3530* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
3531 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
3532
2fe16229
CD
3533* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
3534 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
3535 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
3536 extension which uses __block.
3537
303e567a
SP
3538* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
3539 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
3540 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
3541 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
3542 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
3543
141f3a77
SP
3544* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
3545 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
3546 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
3547 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
3548 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
3549
3550* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
3551 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
3552 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
3553 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
3554 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
3555
3556* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
3557 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
3558 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
3559
ba0d798c
WN
3560* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
3561 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
3562 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
3563 #15856, #15857).
3564
7cbcdb36
SP
3565* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
3566 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
3567
82bab04b 3568* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 3569 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 3570
c5f840fd
MB
3571* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
3572
3e181dda
CD
3573* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
3574 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 3575
3e181dda 3576* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 3577
8a05c252
CL
3578* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
3579
6055173a
JM
3580* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
3581 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
3582 for which the C library was built.
3583
b125d3e5
JM
3584* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
3585 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
3586 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
3587 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
3588 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
3589 in the following circumstances:
3590
3591 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
3592
3593 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
3594 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
3595
d4f66d37
JM
3596* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
3597 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
3598
3e181dda
CD
3599* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
3600 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 3601
ffb89e53
AO
3602* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
3603
5d29ccce
SP
3604* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
3605 transcendental functions have been introduced.
3606
8b7d57cd 3607* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
3608
3609* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 3610
fd712ef3 3611* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 3612
c688b419
JM
3613* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
3614 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
3615 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
3616 disable some of those declarations.
3617
7011c262 3618* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
3619 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
3620 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
3621
3622* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
3623 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
3624
3625* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3626 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3627 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3628 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3629 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3630 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3631 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3632 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3633 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3634 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3635 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3636 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3637 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
3638\f
3639Version 2.18
3640
3641* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3642
17db6e8d 3643 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
3644 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3645 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
3646 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3647 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3648 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3649 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3650 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3651 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3652 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3653 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3654 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3655 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3656 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
3657
3658* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3659 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3660 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3661 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3662 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3663 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 3664
5b535ac4
AS
3665* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3666 #15078).
3667
1cef1b19
AS
3668* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3669 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 3670
55e4107b
SP
3671* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3672 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3673 destructor calls to glibc.
3674
e5c74c63
SP
3675* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3676 output.
3677
3678* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3679 non-x86 architectures.
3680
e7521973
JM
3681* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3682
3683* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3684
3685* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3686 Richard Henderson.
3687
3688* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3689
3690* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3691 Richard Henderson.
3692
3693* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3694 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3695
8cfdb7e0
SP
3696* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3697
57267616
TS
3698* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3699 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 3700
c204ab28
SP
3701* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3702 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 3703
0748546f
PE
3704* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3705 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3706 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3707
61dd6208
SP
3708* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3709 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3710 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
3711
3712* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3713 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3714 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3715 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3716 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
3717
3718* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3719 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3720
3721* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
3722\f
3723Version 2.17
3724
3725* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3726
80ceeaee 3727 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
3728 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3729 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3730 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3731 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3732 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3733 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3734 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3735 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3736 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3737 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3738 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3739 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3740 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3741 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 3742
95b4f1b6
SE
3743* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3744
14bc93a9
JL
3745* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3746 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 3747
b54eb3cb
JM
3748* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3749 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3750
7e2bd01f
MS
3751* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3752
08f43f9b
AK
3753* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3754 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3755 zEnterprise z196.
3756 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3757
84b3fd84
FW
3758* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3759 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3760 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3761
815e6fa3
GB
3762* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3763 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3764
400726de
MK
3765* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3766 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3767
7aab07e4 3768* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 3769 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 3770
15d0da8c
WS
3771* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3772 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3773
3cc3ef96
RM
3774* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3775 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
3776 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3777 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 3778
b54eb3cb
JM
3779* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3780 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3781
85429b1a 3782* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 3783 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
3784 default.
3785
b54eb3cb
JM
3786* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3787 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3788 information in --help and --version output.
3789
050af9c4
SP
3790* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3791 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3792 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3793
89a3ad0b
AO
3794* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3795 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3796 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3797 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3798 when the mode is enabled.
3799
6e6249d0
RM
3800* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3801 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3802 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3803 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3804 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3805 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3806 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 3807
d9286582
NK
3808* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3809 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
UD
3810\f
3811Version 2.16
3812
3813* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3814
a8133e19
JM
3815 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3816 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3817 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3818 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3819 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3820 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3821 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3822 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3823 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3824 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3825 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3826 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3827 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3828 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3829 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3830 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3831 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3832 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3833 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3834 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3835 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3836 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3837 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 3838
a086b4d6
L
3839* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3840 configuring glibc with:
3841 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 3842 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
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3843 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3844
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3845* ISO C11 support:
3846
3847 + define static_assert
3848
3849 + do not declare gets
3850
3851 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3852
3853 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3854 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3855 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3856 implementation.
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3860 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 3861
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3862 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3863
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3864 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3865
9dc4e1fb 3866* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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3868* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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3869
3870* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3871 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3872
3873* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3874 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3875
3876* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3877 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3878 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3879 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3880 existing applications.
ffb7875d 3881
21708942 3882* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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3883 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3884 before 2.6.
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3886* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3887 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3888 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3889
83678f76 3890* New locales: mag_IN
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3891
3892* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3893 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3894 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3895 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3896 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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3897
3898* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3899
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3900* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3901 and Will Schmidt.
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3902
3903* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3904
3905* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3906 without a previously built glibc.
3907
3908* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3909 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3910
3911* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3912 now supported for ARM processors.
3913
3914* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3915 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3916 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3917
3918* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
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3919
3920* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3921 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3922 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3923 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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3924
3925* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3926 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3927 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3928 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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3930* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3931 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3932 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3933 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3934 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3935
3936* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3937 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3938 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3939 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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3944
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3945 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3946 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3947 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3948 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3949 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3950 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3951 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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3953* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3954 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3955
3956* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3957 and support for initgroups lookups.
3958 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3960* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3961 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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3963* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3964 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 3965
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3966* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3967 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 3968 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 3969
d42964a0 3970* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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3971 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3972
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3973* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3974 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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3975 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3976
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3977* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3978 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3979
3980* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3981 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3982
3983* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3984 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3985
3986* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3987 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3988
3989* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3990 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3991
3992* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3993 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3995* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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3996
3997* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3998 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4000* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4001 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 4002
6b64057b 4003* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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4007* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4008
553149f6 4009 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 4010 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 4011 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 4012 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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4013 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4014 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4015 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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4016 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4017 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 4018 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 4019
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4020* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4021 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4022 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 4023 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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4024
4025 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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4026 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4027 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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4028 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4029
c6489db3 4030* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 4031 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 4032
72d1dddb 4033* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 4034 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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4035
4036* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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4037
4038* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4039 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4040
4041* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4042 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4043 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4044 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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4046Version 2.13
4047
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4048* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4049
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4050 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4051 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4052 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4053 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4054 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 4055
10b3bedc 4056* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 4057
ac2b484c 4058* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 4059
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4060* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4061 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 4062 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4064Version 2.12
4065
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4066* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4067
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4068 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4069 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4070 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4071 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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4072 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4073 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4074 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 4075 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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4076
4077* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 4078
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4079* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4080
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4081* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4082
4083* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4084 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4085 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4086
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4087* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4088 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4089 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4090 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4091 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4092
d36b9613 4093* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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4094\f
4095Version 2.11
4096
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4097* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4098
4099 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4100 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4101 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4102 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4103 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4104 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4105
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4106* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4107 mkostemps64
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4108 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4109
24ab9c76 4110* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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4111 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4112
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4113* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4114 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4115
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4116* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4117
0122f28e 4118* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 4119 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 4120 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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4121 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4122
9d36a6c4 4123 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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4124 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4125
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4126* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4127 strstr, strcasestr.
4128 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4129
4130* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4131 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4132
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4133* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4134 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4135
4136* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4137 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4138
4139* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4140 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4141 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4142 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4143 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4144 necessity is every process again.
4145 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4146
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4147* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4148 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4149
4150* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4151 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4152
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4153* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4154 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4155 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4156
9dd5b8a1 4157* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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4159Version 2.10
4160
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4161* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4162
4163 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4164 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4165 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4166 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4167 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4168
bb066545 4169* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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4170 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4171
425ce2ed 4172* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 4173 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 4174
1fdd89a7 4175* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 4176 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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4178* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4179 now in POSIX.
77db439e 4180
1f04d005 4181* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 4182 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 4183
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4184* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4185 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4186
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4187* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4188 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4189
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4190* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4191 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4192
4193* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4194 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4195 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4196
735be400 4197* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 4198
84aa52d7 4199* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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4200 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4201
4202* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4203 and extend existing format specifiers.
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4204 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4205
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4206* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4207 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4208
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4209* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4210 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4211 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4212 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4213 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4214 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4217
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4218* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4219
4220 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
4221 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
4222 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
4223 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
4224 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4225
b29899ae 4226* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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4227 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4228
4229* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4230 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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4231
4232* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4233 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4234
4235* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4236 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4237 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4238
4239* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4240 Implemented by Eric Blake.
e038616f 4241
8ec2550e 4242* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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4243
4244* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 4245 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
e038616f 4246
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4247* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4248 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4249 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4250 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4251
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4252* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4253 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4255* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4256 Sinhala)
48b22986 4257 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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4258
4259* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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4262
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4263* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4264
4265 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4266 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4267 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4268 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4269 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4270 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4271 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4272
e038616f 4273* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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77751669 4275* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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4277* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4278 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4279
4280* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4281
4282* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4283 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4284
4285* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4286 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4287
4288* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4289 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4290 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4291
4292* Faster memset for x86-64.
4293 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4294
4295* Faster memcpy on x86.
4296 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4297
4298* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4299 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4301* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 4302 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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4305
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4307
4308 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4309 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4310 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4311 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4312 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4313
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4314* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4315 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4316
4317* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4318
4319* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4320 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4321 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4322
4323* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4324 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4325
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4327 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4328
4329* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4330
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4331* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4332 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4333
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4334* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4335 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4336
4337* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4338 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4339
4340* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4341
4342* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4343 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4345* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4346 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4347 yo_NG.
4348
4349+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4350 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4355
4356 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4357 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4358 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4359 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4360 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4361 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4362 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4363 4702, 4858
4364
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4368
b21fa963 4369* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4372
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4374
4375 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4376 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4377 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4378 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4379 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4380 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4381 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4382 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4383 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4384
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4387 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4389* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4390 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4391
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4394* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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4396* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4397 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4398 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 4399 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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4400 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4401
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4403 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4404 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4405 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4406
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4408 Ulrich Drepper.
4409
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4410* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4411
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4412* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4413 Ulrich Drepper.
4414
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4415* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4416
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4417* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4418 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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4421
4422* More overflow detection functions.
4423
4424* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4425 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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4427 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4428 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4429 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4430 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4431 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4432 by Masahide Washizawa.
4433
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4434* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4435 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4437* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4438 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4439 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4440 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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4442* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4443 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4444
4445* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4446
4447* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4448 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4449 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4450
4451* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4452 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4453
4454* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4455 for compatibility with some other systems.
4456
4457* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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4459Version 2.3.6
4460
4461* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4462
4463 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4464 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4465 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4466 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4467 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4468 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4469
5a82c748 4470 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4471
4472* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4473
4474* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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4476Version 2.3.5
4477
4478* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4479
4480 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4481 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4482 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4483 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4484
5a82c748 4485 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4487Version 2.3.4
4488
4489* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4490 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4491
4492* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4493 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4494 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4495
4496* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4497 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4498
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4500 efficiently.
4501 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4502
4503* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4504 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4505 handling data.
4506
4507* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4508 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 4509 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4510
4511* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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4512 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4513
4514* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4515 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4516 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4517 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4518
4519* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4520 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4521 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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4522 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4523
4524* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
4525 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
4526 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
4527 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
4528 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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4530Version 2.3.3
4531
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4532* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
4533 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
4534
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4535* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
4536 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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69be6aaf 4538* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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4539 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
4540
4541* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
4542 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4544* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
4545 by Roland McGrath.
4546
c5af724c 4547* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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4548 and Ulrich Drepper.
4549
4550* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
4551 RFC 3484.
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4553Version 2.3.2
4554
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4555* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
4556 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
4557 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
4558 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
4559 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
4560 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
4561 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
4562 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
4563 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
4564
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4565* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
4566 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
4567 and are now also available on the Hurd.
4568
4569* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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4570
4571* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
4572 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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4574* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
4575 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
4576
52a16e58 4577* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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4579* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
4580 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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4581
4582* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
4583 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
4584 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
4585 of weak definition in ld.so.
4586
4587* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
4588 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
4589
4590* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
4591 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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4595* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
4596 charsets.
4597
4598* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
4599 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 4601* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 4602 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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4603
4604* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
4605 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 4606
bb0ec5bd 4607* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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4608 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
4609 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4611* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
4612 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 4613
bb0ec5bd 4614* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 4615 implementation of regex.
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4616
4617* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
4618 Unicode 3.2.
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4620* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
4621 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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4623* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
4624 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
4625 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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4626
4627* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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4629
4630* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4631 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4632 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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4633
4634* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4635 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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4636
4637* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4638 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4639 and Ulrich Drepper.
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4641* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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4644
4645* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4646 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4647
4648* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4649 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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4651Version 2.2.5
4652
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4653* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4654 128-bit long double format.
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4656* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4657 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 4658
ad2e4f18 4659* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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4661* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4662
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4663* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4664 as well.
4665
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4666* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4667 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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4669* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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4671Version 2.2.4
4672
2995f70e 4673* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 4674 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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4675
4676* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4677 support Unicode 3.1.
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4679* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4680 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 4681
69d5f925 4682* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 4683
69d5f925 4684* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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4685 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4686 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4687
4688* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4689 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4690
4691* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4692 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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4694* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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4696Version 2.2.3
4697
1746f2b0 4698* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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4699 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4700 in float, double, and long double format.
4701
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4703 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4704 128-bit long double format.
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4706* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4707 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4708 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4709 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4710
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4712 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4713 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4715* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4716 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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4717
4718* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4719 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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4721* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4722 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4723 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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4724
4725* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4726 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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4728* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4729 of functions for Linux/x86.
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4731* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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4733Version 2.2.2
4734
464d97ec 4735* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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4736 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4737 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4738 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4739 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4740 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4741 other headers.
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4743* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4744 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4745
4746* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4747 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4748 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4749 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4750
4751* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4752 locales. While
4753
4754 locale -a
4755
4756 only lists the names of the supported locales
4757
4758 locale -a --verbose
4759
4760 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4761 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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4763Version 2.2.1
4764
4765* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4766 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4767 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4768 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4769 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4770
4771 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4772
4773 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4774
4775 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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4776
4777* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4778 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4779 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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4780
4781* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4782 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4783
4784* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4785 changed from the default "C" locale.
4786
4787* The usual bug fixes.
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4789Version 2.2
4790
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4791* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4792 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4793 is in progress.
4794
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4795* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4796
793bd4d9 4797* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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4799 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4800 obviously requires a database library being available.
4801
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4802* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4803
abbffdf9 4804* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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4806* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4807 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4808
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4809* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4810
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4811* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4812 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4813 and Mark Kettenis.
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4814
4815 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4816 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4817 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 4818
a00c3ca9 4819 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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4820 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4821
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4822* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4823 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4824 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4825
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4826* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4827 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4828 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4829 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4830
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4831 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4832 structures for the wide character tables.
4833
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4834* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4835
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4836* The utmp daemon has been removed.
4837
4838* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4839
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4840* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4841 and Yutaka Niibe.
4842
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4843* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4844
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4845* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4846
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4847* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4848
4849* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4850
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4851* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4852
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4854 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4855 implemented for Linux.
4856
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4857* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4858 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4859 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4860 versions.
4861
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4862* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4863 Masahide Washizawa.
4864
8f3f1e09 4865* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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4867Version 2.1.3
4868
4869* bug fixes
4870
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4872Version 2.1.2
4873
4874* bug fixes
4875
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4877Version 2.1.1
4878
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4879* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4880
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4881* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4882
407d26b7 4883* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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4884
4885* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4886
407d26b7 4887* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 4888
407d26b7 4889* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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4890
4891* Update timezone data files.
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4893* lots of charmaps corrections
4894
4895* some new locale definitions and charmaps
4896
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4898Version 2.1
4899
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4900* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4901 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4902 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4903 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4904 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4905 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4906
c84142e8 4907* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 4908 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 4909
1fb05e3d 4910* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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4911 symbol level.
4912
4913* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4914 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
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cbdee279 4916* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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4917
4918* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 4919 numbers.
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cbdee279 4921* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
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4923* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4924 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 4925
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4926* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4927 library.
4928
e61abf83 4929* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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4930 functions from ISO C 9X.
4931
4932* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4933 real valued functions.
e61abf83 4934
a5a0310d 4935* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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4937* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4938
4939* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 4940
440d13e2 4941* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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4942
4943* Optimized string functions have been added.
4944
4945* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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4946
4947* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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4949* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4950 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4951
4952 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4953 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4954
0dee6738 4955 user system wall
48244d09 4956
0dee6738 4957 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 4958
0dee6738 4959 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 4960
0dee6738 4961 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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4963 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4964
4965 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4966
4967 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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4970 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 4971 horribly slow.
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4973 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4974 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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4976* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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4977
4978* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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4979
4980* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4981 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4982
4983* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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4985* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4986 Bambrough.
4987
4988* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4989 latest draft standards.
4990
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4991* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
4992
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4993* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
4994~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 4995addseverity NEW: Unix98
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4997argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4998argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4999argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5000argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5001argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5002argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5003argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5004argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5005argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5006argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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5007authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5008authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5009authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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5010backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5011backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5012backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5013cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
5014cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5015cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5016cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5017cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5018cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5019capget NEW: kernel
5020capset NEW: kernel
5021carg NEW: ISO C 9x
5022cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
5023cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
5024casin NEW: ISO C 9x
5025casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5026casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5027casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5028casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5029casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5030catan NEW: ISO C 9x
5031catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5032catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5033catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5034catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5035catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5037ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
5038ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5039ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5040ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5041ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5042ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5043cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
5044cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
5045cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
5046cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
5047cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5048cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5049clearerr_locked REMOVED
5050clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5051clog NEW: ISO C 9x
5052clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5053clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5054clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5055clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
5056clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
5057conj NEW: ISO C 9x
5058conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
5059conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
5060cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
5061cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
5062cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
5063cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
5064cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5065cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5066creal NEW: ISO C 9x
5067crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5068creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5069creat64 NEW: LFS
5070csin NEW: ISO C 9x
5071csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5072csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5073csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5074csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5075csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5076csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
5077csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5078csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5079ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
5080ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5081ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5082ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5083ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5084ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5085des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5086ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5087endutxent NEW: Unix98
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5088exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5089exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5090exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5091exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5092exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5093exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5094fattach NEW: STREAMS
5095fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5096fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
5097fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
5098fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
5099feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5100fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5101fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5102fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5103feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5104feof_locked REMOVED
5105feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5106ferror_locked REMOVED
5107fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5108fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5109fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5110fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5111feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5112fflush_locked REMOVED
5113ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
5114ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
5115fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
5116fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5117fileno_locked REMOVED
5118fma NEW: ISO C 9x
5119fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5120fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
5121fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
5122fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
5123fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
5124fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
5125fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
5126fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 5127fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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5128fopen64 NEW: LFS
5129fputc_locked REMOVED
5130fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5131fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5132freopen64 NEW: LFS
5133fseeko NEW: Unix98
5134fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
5135fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
5136fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5137fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
5138ftello NEW: Unix98
5139ftello64 NEW: LFS
5140ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5141ftw64 NEW: LFS
5142fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5143gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5144gamma_r REMOVED
5145gammaf_r REMOVED
5146gammal_r REMOVED
5147getchar_locked REMOVED
5148getdate NEW: Unix98
5149getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5150getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5151getmsg NEW: STREAMS
5152getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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5154getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5155getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5156getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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5157getutxent NEW: Unix98
5158getutxid NEW: Unix98
5159getutxline NEW: Unix98
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5160glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5161globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5162gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5163gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5164grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 5165host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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5166iconv NEW: iconv
5167iconv_close NEW: iconv
5168iconv_open NEW: iconv
5169if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5170if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5171if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5172if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5173in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5174in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5175inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5176isastream NEW: STREAMS
5177iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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5178key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5179key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5180key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5181key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5182key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5183key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5184key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5185key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5186key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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5187llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5188llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5189llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5190llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5191llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5192llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5193log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5194log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5195log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5196lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5197lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5198lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5199lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5200lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5201lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5202lseek64 NEW: LFS
5203makecontext NEW: Unix98
5204mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5205mmap64 NEW: LFS
5206moncontrol REMOVED
5207modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5208nan NEW: ISO C 9x
5209nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5210nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5211nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5212nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5213nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5214netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5215netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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5216nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5217nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5218nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5219nftw NEW: Unix98
5220nftw64 NEW: LFS
5221open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 5222passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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5223pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
5224pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5225pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5226pread NEW: Unix98
5227pread64 NEW: LFS
5228printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5229printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5230profil_counter REMOVED
5231pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5232pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5233ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5234ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5235putc_locked REMOVED
5236putchar_locked REMOVED
5237putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5238putmsg NEW: STREAMS
5239putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 5240pututxline NEW: Unix98
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5241pwrite NEW: Unix98
5242pwrite64 NEW: LFS
5243readdir64 NEW: LFS
5244readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5245remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5246remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5247remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5248round NEW: ISO C 9x
5249roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5250roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5251rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5252scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5253scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5254scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5255scandir64 NEW: LFS
5256sendfile NEW: kernel
5257setcontext NEW: Unix98
5258setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 5259setutxent NEW: Unix98
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5260sighold NEW: Unix98
5261sigignore NEW: Unix98
5262sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5263sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5264sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5265sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5266sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5267sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5268sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5269sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5270statfs64 NEW: LFS
5271statvfs NEW: Unix98
5272statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5273strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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5274strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5275strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5276strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 5277svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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5278svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5279svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5280swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5281tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5282tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5283tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5284tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5285tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5286tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5287trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5288truncate64 NEW: LFS
5289truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5290truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5291umount2 NEW: kernel
5292unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 5293updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 5294user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5295utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5296versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 5297versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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5298waitid NEW: Unix98
5299wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5300wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5301wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5302wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5303wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5304wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5305wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5306wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5307wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5308wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5309write_profiling REMOVED
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5310xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5311xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5312xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5313xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5314xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5315xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5316xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5317xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5318xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5319xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5320xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5321xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5322xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5323xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 5324xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5325~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5327Version 2.0.6
5328
5329* more bug fixes
5330
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5332Version 2.0.5
5333
5334* more bug fixes
5335
5336* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5337
5338* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5339
5340* rewrite of cbrt function
5341
5342* update of timezone data
5343\f
5344Version 2.0.4
5345
5346* more bug fixes
5347\f
5348Version 2.0.3
5349
5350* more bug fixes
c84142e8 5351\f
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5352Version 2.0.2
5353
5354* more bug fixes
5355
5356* add atoll function
5357
5358* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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5359
5360* fix math functions
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5362Version 2.0.1
5363
5364* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5365
5366* dynamic loader preserves all registers
5367
5368* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5369 the ELF dynamic loader.
5370
5371* support for parallel builds is improved
5372\f
40a4b79f 5373Version 2.0
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5375* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5376 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5377 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
5378
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5379* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5380 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5381 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5382 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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5383 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5384 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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5385 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5386 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5387 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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5388 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5389 files in the ELF format.
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5390
5391* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5392 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5393
5394* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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5395 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5396 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5397 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5398 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5399 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5400 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5401 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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5402 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5403 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5404 about dynamically linked binaries.
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5406* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5407 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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5408 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5409 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5410 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 5411
f7eac6eb 5412* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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5413 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5414 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5415 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5416 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5417
5418* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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5420* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5421 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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5422 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5423 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5424 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5425 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5426 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5427 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5428 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 5429
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5430* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5431 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5432 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5433
5434* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5435 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5436 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5437
5438* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5439 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5440 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5441 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5442
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5443* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5444 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5445 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5446
5447* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5448 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5449 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5450
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5451* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5452 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5453
f7eac6eb 5454* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 5455 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 5456 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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5457 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5458
5459* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5460 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5461 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 5462
71733723 5463* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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5464 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5465 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5466 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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5467 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5468 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 5469 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 5470 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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5471
5472* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5473 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5474 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5475 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5476 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5477 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5478 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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5479
5480* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5481 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5482 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5483 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5484 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5485 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5486
5487* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5488 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5489
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5490* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5491 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5492 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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5494* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5495
5496* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5497 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5498 their use is discouraged.
5499
5500* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5501 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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5503* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5504 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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5505
5506* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5507 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5508
5509* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5510 see <dirent.h>.
5511
5512* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5513 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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5514 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5515 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5516 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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5517
5518* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5519 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5520 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5521 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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5522
5523* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
5524 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
5525
5526* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
5527 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
5528 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
5529 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
5530 number generator.
5531
5532* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
5533 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
5534
5535* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
5536 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
5537
71733723 5538* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 5539 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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5540 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
5541 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 5542
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5543* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
5544
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5545* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
5546 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
5547 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
5548
5549* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
5550 for arithmetic and string handling.
d3669add 5551
c709e372 5552* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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5553 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
5554 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
5555 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
5556
5557* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
5558 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
5559 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
5560 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
5561 programs already written to use it.)
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5562
5563* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
5564 constants.
5565
5566* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
5567 with 4.4 BSD.
5568
5569* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
5570 a given effective group ID.
5571
5572* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
5573 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
5574 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
5575 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
5576
5577* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 5578 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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5579 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
5580 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
5581 doing the same thing.
5582
5583* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
5584 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
5585
5586* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 5587 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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5588
5589* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
5590
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5591* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
5592 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
5593 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 5594 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 5595 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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5596
5597* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
5598 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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5599
5600* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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5601 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
5602 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
5603 function.
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5604
5605* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
5606
5607* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
5608 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
5609 strings.
5610
5611* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
5612 and writing the utmp file.
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5613
5614* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
5615 Thorsten Kukuk.
5616
5617* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
5618 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
5619 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
5620
5621* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
5622 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
5623
5624* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
5625 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5626 specification.
5627
5628* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5629 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5630 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5631 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5632
5633* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5634 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5635 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5636
5637* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5638 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5639 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5640 expression matcher.
5641
5642* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5643 functionality.
5644
5645* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5646 by Ulrich Drepper.
5647
5648* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5649
5650* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5651 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5652 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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5654Version 1.09
5655
5656* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5657
5658* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5659 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5660
5661* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5662 want to put themselves in the background.
5663
5664* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5665 run without an operating system.
5666
5667* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5668 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5669
5670* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5671 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5672
5673* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5674
5675* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5676 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5677 have YP (aka NIS).
5678
5679* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5680 conventions.
5681
5682* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5683 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5684\f
5685Version 1.08
5686
5687* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5688 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5689 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5690
5691* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5692 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5693
5694* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5695 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5696
5697* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5698
5699* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5700
5701* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5702 compatibility.
5703
5704* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5705 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5706 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5707
5708* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5709
5710* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5711 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5712 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5713
5714* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5715 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5716 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5717 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5718 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5719 on a block).
5720
5721* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5722 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5723 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5724 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5725 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5726 cross-compiler.
5727
5728* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5729 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5730\f
5731Version 1.07
5732
5733* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5734 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5735
5736* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5737 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5738 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5739
5740* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5741 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5742 address of the last character written.
5743
5744* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5745 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5746
5747* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5748 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5749
5750* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5751 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5752 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5753 you dereference this pointer.
5754
5755* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5756 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5757
5758* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5759 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5760 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5761 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5762
5763* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5764 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5765 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5766 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5767\f
5768Version 1.06
5769
5770* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5771 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5772 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5773 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 5774 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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5775
5776* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5777
5778* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5779
5780* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5781 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5782
5783* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5784 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5785
5786* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5787 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5788
5789* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5790 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5791 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5792 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5793 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5794
5795* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5796 to the error code in `errno'.
5797
5798* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5799 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5800 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5801 malloc'd string.
5802
5803* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5804 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5805 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5806
5807* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5808 uniquely-named temporary file.
5809\f
5810Version 1.05
5811
5812* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5813 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5814 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5815
5816* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5817 characters.
5818
5819* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5820 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5821
5822* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
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5824Version 1.04
5825
5826* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5827 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5828 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5829 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5830
5831* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5832 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5833 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5834
5835* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5836 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5837
5838* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5839 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5840 made itself into a shared library.
5841
5842* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5843 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5844
5845* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5846 with limited length.
5847
5848* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5849
5850* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5851
5852* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5853
5854* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5855 function for traversing a directory tree.
5856
5857* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5858 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5859 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5860 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5861
5862* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5863 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5864
5865* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5866
5867* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5868 things to your strings.
5869
5870* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5871
5872* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5873 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5874 supporting those systems.
5875
5876* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5877 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5878 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5879 configuration files.
5880
5881* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5882 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5883
5884* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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5885 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
5886 in <strings.h>.)
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5887
5888* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5889 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5890 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5891 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5892 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5893 required storage is not available.
5894
5895* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5896 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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5897
5898* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5899 latest files released from Berkeley.
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5901----------------------------------------------------------------------
5902Copyright information:
5903
5f72f980 5904Copyright (C) 1992-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5905
5906 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5907 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5908 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5909 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5910
5911 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5912 of this document, or of portions of it,
5913 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5914 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
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