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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
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10Major new features:
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14Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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16 [Add deprecations, removals and changes affecting compatibility here]
17
18Changes to build and runtime requirements:
19
20 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
21
22Security related changes:
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24 [Add security related changes here]
25
26The following bugs are resolved with this release:
27
28 [The release manager will add the list generated by
29 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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31Version 2.31
32
33Major new features:
34
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35* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
36 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
37 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
38 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
39 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
40 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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42* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
43 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
44 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
45 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
46
69ca4b54 47* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 48 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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49 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
50
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51* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
52
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53* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
54 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
55 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
56 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
57 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
58 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
59 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
60 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
61
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62Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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64* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
65 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
66 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
67 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
68 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
69 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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12cbde1d 71* The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
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72 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
73 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
74
75* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
76 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
77 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
78 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
79
80* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
81 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
82 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
83 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
84 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
85 made this no longer practical.
86
87 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
88 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
89 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
90 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
91 release.)
92
93 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
94 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
95 with the current time, use the localtime function.
96
97 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
98 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
99 using clock_gettime instead.
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101* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
102 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
103 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
104 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
105 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
106
107 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
108 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
109 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
110 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
111
112 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
113 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
114 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
115 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
116 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
117 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
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119 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
120 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
121 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
122 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
123 offset API.
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125* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
126 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
127 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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129 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
130 configurations.
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132* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
133 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
134 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
135 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
136 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
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138* For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
139 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
140 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
141 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
142 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
143 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
144 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
145 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
146
147 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
148 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
149
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150* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
151 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
152 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
153 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
154 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
155 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
156
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157Changes to build and runtime requirements:
158
a1bd5f86 159* It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
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160 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
161 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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163* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
164 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
165 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
166
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167Security related changes:
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169 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
170 environment variable during program execution after a security
171 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
172 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
173 program. Reported by Marcin Koƛcielnicki.
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174
175The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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177 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
178 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
179 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
180 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
181 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
182 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
183 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
184 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
185 linking failure
186 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
187 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
188 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
189 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
190 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
191 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
192 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
193 constructors/destructors is not fatal
194 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
195 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
196 7408-2005
197 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
198 with localedef
199 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
200 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
201 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
202 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
203 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
204 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
205 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
206 utmp entries
207 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
208 ABSOLUTE ABI
209 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
210 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
211 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
212 (stringop-overflow error)
213 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
214 functions other can lead to crashes
215 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
216 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
217 unconditionally
218 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
219 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
220 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
221 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
222 still can fail with an error
223 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
224 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
225 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
226 initialized correctly
227 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
228 -frewrite-includes
229 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
230 value to an unsigned
231 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
232 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
233 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
234 protection
235 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
236 ifunc variant.
237 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
238 al. for Clang++
239 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
240 (Slovenian)
241 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
242 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
243 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
244 with -std=c11
245 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
246 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
247 part
248 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
249 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
250 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
251 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
252 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
253 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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256Version 2.30
257
258Major new features:
259
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260* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
261 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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262 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
263
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264* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
265 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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267* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
268 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
269 to the callback function.
270
51ea67d5 271* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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273* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
274 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
275 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
276
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277* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
278
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279* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
280 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
281 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
282 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
283 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
284
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285* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
286 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
287 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
288 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
289 link time reference, is gone.
290
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291* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
292 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
293 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
294 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
295 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
296 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
297 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
298 the clock choice at initialization time).
299
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300* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
301 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
302 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
303
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304Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
305
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306* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
307 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
308 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
309 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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310 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
311 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
312 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
313 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
314 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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316* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
317 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
318 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
319 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
320 since glibc 2.17.
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322* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
323 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
324
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325* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
326 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
327
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328* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
329 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
330
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331* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
332 BIND_NOW flag.
333
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334* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
335 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
336 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
337
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338* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
339 header have been removed.
340
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341* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
342 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
343 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
344 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
345
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346Changes to build and runtime requirements:
347
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348* GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
349
350 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
351 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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353Security related changes:
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355 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
356 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
357 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
358 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
359 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
360 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
361 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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363 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
364 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
365 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
366
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369 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
370 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
371 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
372 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
373 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
374 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
375 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
376 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
377 invalid input drops valid char
378 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
379 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
380 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
381 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
382 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
383 malloc.h.
384 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
385 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
386 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
387 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
388 functions
389 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
390 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
391 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
392 for long double = double
393 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
394 long double = double
395 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
396 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
397 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
398 long timeouts
399 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar ouput to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
400 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
401 checking for NULL.
402 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
403 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
404 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
405 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
406 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
407 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
408 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
409 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
410 not the default "nor"
411 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
412 false positives, change to modern flexible array
413 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
414 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
415 compiler barriers.
416 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
417 unnecessary librt dependencies
418 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
419 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
420 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
421 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
422 unsorted chunk
423 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
424 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
425 to R_SPARC_H44
426 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
427 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
428 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
429 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
430 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
431 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
432 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
433 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
434 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
435 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
436 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
437 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
438 was not used
439 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
440 tests
441 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
442 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
443 time_t changes
444 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
445 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
446 kernels and break testing
447 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
448 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
449 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
450 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
451 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
452 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
453 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
454 -O3 -march=skylake
455 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
456 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
457 crash
458 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
459 linked glibc
460 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
461 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
462 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
463 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
464 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
465 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
466 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
467 always implemented in the same library
468 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
469 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
470 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
471 testroot
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474Version 2.29
475
476Major new features:
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478* The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
479 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
480
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481* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
482 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
483 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
484 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
485 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
486 configured location.
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491 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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494 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
495 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
496 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
497 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
498 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
499 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
500 process actually does not use HTM).
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503 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
504 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
505 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
506 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
507 of the same name.
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509* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
510 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
511 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 512 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
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515* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
516 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
517 supported:
518 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
519 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
520
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522 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
523 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
524 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
525 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
526 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
527 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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530 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
531 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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535* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
536 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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538* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
539 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
540 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
541 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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544 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
545 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
546 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
547 structures.
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550 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
551 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
552 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
553 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
554 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
555
556 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
557 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
558 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
559 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
560 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
561
562 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
563 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
564 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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567
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571 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
572
573 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
574 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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578 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
579 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
580 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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583 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
584 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
585 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
586 Reported by H.J. Lu.
587
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588 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
589 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
590 or command injection issues in applications.
591
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594 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
595 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
596 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
597 thousands
598 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
599 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
600 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
601 --param options)
602 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
603 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
604 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
605 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
606 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
607 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
608 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
609 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
610 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
611 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
612 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
613 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
614 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
615 pointer argument is non-NULL
616 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
617 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
618 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
619 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
620 multithreads call popen
621 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
622 and pthread_create fails.
623 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
624 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
625 constructor
626 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
627 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
628 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
629 source tree
630 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
631 float
632 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
633 one error
634 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
635 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
636 linker
637 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
638 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
639 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
640 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
641 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
642 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
643 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
644 filesystems
645 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
646 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
647 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
648 functions
649 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
650 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
651 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
652 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
653 have wrong type
654 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
655 wrong type
656 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
657 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
658 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
659 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
660 threads
661 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
662 start.S
663 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
664 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
665 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
666 powerpc64le
667 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
668 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
669 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
670 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
671 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
672 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
673 strftime
674 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
675 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
676 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
677 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
678 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
679 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
680 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
681 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
682 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
683 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
684 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
685 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
686 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
687 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
688 tcache size
689 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
690 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
691 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
692 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
693 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
694 (CVE-2018-19591)
695 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
696 nearest rounding mode
697 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
698 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
699 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
700 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
701 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
702 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
703 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
704 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
705 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
706 error
707 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
708 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
709 using GCC 8
710 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
711 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
712 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
713 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
714 ppc64le
715 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
716 expected result
717 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
718 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
719 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
720 sigaltstack
721 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
722 answers will be rejected)
723 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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727
728Major new features:
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731 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
732 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
733 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
734 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
735 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
736 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
737 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
738 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
739 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
740 archive or binary locales.
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743 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
744 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
745 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
746 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
747 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
748 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
749 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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751 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
752 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
753 validated for i686.
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756 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
757 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
758 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
759 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
760 field) to indicate such support is required.
761
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762* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
763 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
764 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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767 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
768
769 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
770 fMxaddfNx functions.
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772 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
773 fMxsubfNx functions.
774
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775 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
776 fMxmulfNx functions.
777
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778 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
779 fMxdivfNx functions.
780
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df467d22 782 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 783 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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785 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 787* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 788 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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790* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
791 patches.
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794 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
795 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
796 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
797 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
798 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
799 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
800 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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803 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
804 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
805 the fstatat64 function.
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807* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
808 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
809 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
810 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
811 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
812 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
813 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
814 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
815 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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818 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
819 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
820 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
821 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
822 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
823 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
824 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
825 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
826 results in a load failure now.
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829 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
830 <threads.h>:
831
832 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
833 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
834
835 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
836 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
837
838 - call_once for function call synchronization.
839
840 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
841 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
842
843 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
844
845 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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850 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
851 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
852
853* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
854 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
855 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
856 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
857 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
858 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
859
860* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
861 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
862 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
863 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
864 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
865 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
866 (Bug #1190.)
867
868* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
869 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
870 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
871 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
872 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
873 further explanation.
874
875 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
876 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
877 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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882 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
883 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
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885* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
886 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
887 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
888 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
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891 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
892 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
893 for this function instead.
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896 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
897 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
898
899* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
900 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
901 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
902 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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905 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
906 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
907 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
908 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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911 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
912 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
913 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
914 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
915 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
916 such as libgcrypt.
917
918* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
919 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
920 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
921 enabled.
922
923* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
924 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
925 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
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928 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
929 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
930 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
931 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
932 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
933
934 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
935 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
936 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
937 behavior in a future release.
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940
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943Security related changes:
944
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945 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
946 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
947 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
948 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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950 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
951 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
952
953 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
954 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
955 Izbyshev.
956
957 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
958 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
959 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
960
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963 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
964 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
965 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
966 when __WORDSIZE != 64
967 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
968 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
969 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
970 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
971 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
972 14651
973 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
974 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
975 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
976 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
977 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
978 conversion is given
979 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
980 date
981 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
982 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
983 scope with -O1 and higher
984 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
985 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
986 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
987 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
988 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
989 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
990 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
991 horrible machine code)
992 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
993 last constant.
994 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
995 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
996 symbols
997 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
998 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
999 defined
1000 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1001 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1002 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1003 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1004 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1005 fpscr.c'
1006 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1007 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1008 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1009 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1010 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1011 the base address
1012 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1013 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1014 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1015 open_verify
1016 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1017 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1018 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1019 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1020 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1021 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1022 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1023 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1024 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1025 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1026 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1027 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1028 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1029 dlopen
1030 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1031 AT_SECURE=1
1032 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1033 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1034 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1035 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1036 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1037 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1038 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1039 for Spanish with CLDR
1040 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1041 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1042 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1043 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1044 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1045 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1046 es_BO
1047 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1048 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
1049 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1050 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1051 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1052 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1053 dlopen failures
1054 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1055 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1056 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1057 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1058 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1059 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1060 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1061 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1062 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1063 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1064 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1065 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1066 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1067 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1068 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1069 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1070 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1071 makecontext
1072 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1073 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1074 required
1075 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1076 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1077 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1078 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1079 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1080 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1081 disabled
1082 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1083 failure
1084 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1085 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1086 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1087 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1088 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1089 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1090 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1091 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1092 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1093 and libc build with -Os)
1094 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1095 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1096 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1097 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1098 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1099 that changes /etc/passwd
1100 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1101 (CVE-2018-11237)
1102 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1103 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1104 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1105 posix/regcomp.c
1106 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1107 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1108 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1109 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1110 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1111 AT_SECURE
1112 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1113 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1114 parser.c
1115 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1116 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1117 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1118 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1119 directed rounding
1120 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1121 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1122 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1123 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1124 lookup
1125 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1126 interposition
1127 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1128 DSO boundaries.
1129 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1130 <linux/time.h>
1131 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1132 checking
1133 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1134 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1135 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1136 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1137 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1138 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1139 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1140 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1141 processors
1142 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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1145Version 2.27
1146
1147Major new features:
1148
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1149* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1150 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 1151 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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1152 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1153 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1154 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1155 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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1156 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1157 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 1158
ac817e08 1159* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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1161 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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1164
4cf82d23 1165* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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1168 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1169 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1170 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1171 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1172 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1173 from a security and performance perspective.
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1176 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1177 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1178 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1179
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1182 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1183 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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1184 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1185
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1188 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1189 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1190 _Float128.
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1193 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1194 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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4bab0224 1196* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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1199 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1200 pkey_get.
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1203
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1204* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1205
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1206* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1207 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1208 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
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1211 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1212 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1213 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1214 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1215 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1216 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1217
1218 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1219 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1220 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1221 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1222 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1223 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1224 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1225
1226 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1227 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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1229 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1230 respectively.
1231
1232 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1233 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1234 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1235 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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1237 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1238 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1239 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1240
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1242 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 1243 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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1246 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1247 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1248
1249 - rv64imac lp64
1250 - rv64imafdc lp64
1251 - rv64imafdc lp64d
1252
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1256 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
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1259 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1260 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1261 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1262 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1263 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1264 fix this.
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1266* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1267 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1268 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1269
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1270* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1271 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1272 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1273 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1274 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1275 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1276 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1277 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1278 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1279 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1280 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1281 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1282 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1283 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1284 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1285 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1286 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1287 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1288 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1289 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1290 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1291 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1292 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1293 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1294 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1295 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
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1298 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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1301 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1302 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1303 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1304 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1305 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1306 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
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1309 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1310 exp10l for these functions instead.
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1313 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1314 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
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1317 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1318 ignored.
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1321 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1322 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1323 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
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1326 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1327
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1329 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
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1332 programs.
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1336* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1337 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1338 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1339 instead.
1340
1341 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1342 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1343 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1344 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1345 use, but predates the bits convention.
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1349* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1350 subdirectory.
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1352Security related changes:
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1355 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1356 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1357 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1358 script.)
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1361 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1362 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1363 Reported by Tim RĂŒhsen.
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FW
1365 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1366 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1367 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1368 of service.
1369
15e84c63
AJ
1370 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1371 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
a159b53f
PE
1372 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim RĂŒhsen.
1373
37ac8e63
FW
1374 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1375 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1376 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1377 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1378
8a0b17e4
FW
1379 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1380 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1381 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1382 Qualys.
1383
3ff3dfa5
FW
1384 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1385 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1386 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1387 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1388 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1389
3e3c904d
AJ
1390 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1391 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1392 current directory.
1393
52a713fd
DL
1394 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1395 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1396 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1397
4590634f
FW
1398 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1399 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1400 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1401
71aa429b
FW
1402 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1403 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1404 small, instead of NULL.
1405
00cdcf5a
SP
1406The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1407
242cbc90
DL
1408 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1409 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1410 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1411 locale
1412 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1413 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1414 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1415 cases
1416 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1417 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1418 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1419 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1420 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1421 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1422 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1423 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1424 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1425 "Bangla"
1426 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1427 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1428 width Latin characters
1429 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1430 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1431 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1432 letters
1433 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1434 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1435 (CVE-2009-5064)
1436 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1437 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1438 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1439 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1440 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1441 if malloc succeeded
1442 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1443 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1444 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1445 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1446 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1447 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1448 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1449 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1450 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1451 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1452 U+309A
1453 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1454 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1455 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1456 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1457 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1458 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1459 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1460 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new MĂ­skitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1461 for Nicaragua
1462 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1463 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1464 are not found.
1465 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1466 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1467 access
1468 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1469 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1470 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1471 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1472 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1473 __regcall calling convention
1474 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1475 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1476 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1477 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1478 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1479 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1480 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1481 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1482 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1483 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1484 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1485 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1486 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1487 locale
1488 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1489 protector=all
1490 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1491 wcwidth
1492 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
1493 consistency check failures
1494 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
1495 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
1496 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
1497 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
1498 PIE
1499 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
1500 locales
1501 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
1502 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
1503 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
1504 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
1505 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
1506 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
1507 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
1508 on memory allocation failure
1509 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
1510 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
1511 the suspect)
1512 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
1513 default (i386)
1514 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
1515 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
1516 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
1517 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
1518 instead of EAI_NODATA
1519 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
1520 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
1521 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
1522 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
1523 implementation
1524 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
1525 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
1526 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
1527 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
1528 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
1529 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
1530 allocation in syscall loops)
1531 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
1532 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
1533 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
1534 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
1535 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
1536 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
1537 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
1538 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
1539 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
1540 occur with -O3
1541 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
1542 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1543 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
1544 amounts)
1545 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
1546 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
1547 niu_NZ
1548 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
1549 checks
1550 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
1551 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
1552 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
1553 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
1554 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
1555 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
1556 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
1557 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
1558 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
1559 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
1560 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
1561 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
1562 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
1563 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
1564 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
1565 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
1566 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
1567 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
1568 parsing after OOM
1569 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
1570 object
1571 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
1572 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
1573 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
1574 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
1575 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
1576 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
1577 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
1578 ppc64le
1579 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
1580 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
1581 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
1582 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
1583 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
1584 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
1585 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
1586 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
1587 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
1588 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
1589 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
1590 math_force_eval
1591 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
1592 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
1593 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1594 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1595 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1596 the svid compat wrapper
1597 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1598 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1599 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1600 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1601 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1602 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1603 --verbose.
1604 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1605 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1606 to 2.26
1607 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1608 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1609 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1610 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1611 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1612 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1613 (CVE-2017-15804)
1614 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1615 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1616 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1617 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1618 failure."
1619 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1620 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1621 -m32
1622 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1623 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1624 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1625 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1626 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1627 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1628 inside the ASCII printable range
1629 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1630 -mlong-double-64
1631 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1632 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1633 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1634 Internet
1635 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1636 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1637 backslash
1638 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1639 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1640 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1641 heaps in an arena
1642 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1643 networking interface
1644 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1645 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1646 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1647 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1648 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1649 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1650 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1651 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1652 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1653 order
1654 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1655 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1656 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1657 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1658 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1659 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1660 same as for Croatian
1661 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1662 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1663 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1664 for initial thread"
1665 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1666 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1667 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1668 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1669 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1670 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1671 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1672 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1673 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1674 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1675 modified in case of success
1676 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1677 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1678 success
1679 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1680 stack-protector=all
1681 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1682 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1683 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1684 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1685 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1686 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1687 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1688 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1689 adding it on top
1690 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1691 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1692 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1693 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1694 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1695 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1696 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1697 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1698 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1699 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1700 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1701 elision and tunables
1702 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1703 "invalid" exception
1704 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1705 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1706 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1707 exception
1708 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1709 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1710 power4
1711 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1712 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1713 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1714 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1715 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1716 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1717 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1718 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1719 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
00cdcf5a 1720
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1721\f
1722Version 2.26
1723
2b2ccd0c
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1724Major new features:
1725
d5c3fafc
DD
1726* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1727 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1728 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1729 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1730 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1731 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1732 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1733
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1734* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1735 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 1736 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
a0e52598
MF
1737 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1738 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1739 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1740 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
58557c22 1741
2b2ccd0c
ZW
1742* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1743 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1744 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 1745
2b2ccd0c 1746* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 1747
7e368000
JM
1748 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1749 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1750 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 1751
7e368000
JM
1752 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1753 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1754 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1755 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1756 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 1757
7e368000
JM
1758 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1759 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1760 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 1761
2b2ccd0c
ZW
1762* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1763 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 1764
2b2ccd0c
ZW
1765* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1766 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1767 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1768 Dennis Wölfing and RĂŒdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 1769
2b2ccd0c
ZW
1770* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1771 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1772 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1773 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 1774
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1775* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1776 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1777 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1778 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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1780* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1781 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1782 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 1783
2b2ccd0c 1784* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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1785 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1786 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1787 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 1788
2b2ccd0c 1789 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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1790 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1791 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1792 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1793 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1794
1795 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1796 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1797 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1798 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1799 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1800 interfaces should be used instead.
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1802Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1803
1804* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1805 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1806 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1807 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1808 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1809 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1810 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1811 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1812
1813* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1814 removed.
1815
1816* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 1817 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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1819 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1820
1821* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1822 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1823 default.
1824
1825 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1826 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1827 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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1829 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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1831 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1832 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1833 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1834 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1835
1836* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1837 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1838 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1839 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1840
1841* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1842 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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1844* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1845 exported by accident.
1846
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1848 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1849 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1850
1851* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1852 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1853 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1854 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1855
1856* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1857
1858* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1859
1860* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1861 free instead.
1862
1863* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1864 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1865
1866* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1867 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1868
1869* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1870 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1871 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1872 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1873 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1874 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1875 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1876 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1877
1878* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1879 synced with the kernel:
1880
1881 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1882 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1883
1884 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1885 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1886 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1887
1888 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1889 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1890
1891Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1892
1893* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1894 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1895 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1896
7e368000 1897* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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1899* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
1900 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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1902 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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1903 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1904 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1905 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 1906 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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1909
e14a2772 1910* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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1911 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1912
1913* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1914 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1915
1916* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1917 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1918 (CVE-2010-3192).
1919
1920* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1921 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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1923The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1924
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1925 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1926 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1927 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1928 fields
1929 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1930 (CVE-2010-3192)
1931 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1932 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1933 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1934 ld.bfd is available
1935 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1936 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1937 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1938 x86 and other generic code
1939 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1940 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1941 incorrect
1942 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1943 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1944 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1945 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1946 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1947 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1948 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1949 resolver
1950 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1951 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1952 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1953 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1954 chillu characters
1955 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1956 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1957 receiving data
1958 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1959 whitespace
1960 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1961 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1962 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale AwajĂșn / Aguaruna (agr)
1963 for Peru
1964 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1965 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1966 failures consistently
1967 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1968 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1969 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1970 frame-pointer on i386
1971 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1972 register
1973 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1974 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1975 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1976 generic c code is used
1977 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1978 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1979 around 4000
1980 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1981 (CVE-2017-12133)
1982 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1983 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1984 with -lieee
1985 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1986 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1987 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1988 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1989 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1990 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1991 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1992 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1993 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1994 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1995 remove()
1996 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1997 checked for errors.
1998 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1999 new posix_spawn implementation
2000 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2001 leads to lower CPU frequency
2002 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2003 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2004 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2005 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2006 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2007 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2008 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2009 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2010 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2011 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2012 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2013 not support gethostbyname4_r
2014 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2015 switching
2016 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2017 arenas
2018 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2019 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2020 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2021 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2022 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2023 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2024 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2025 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2026 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2027 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2028 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2029 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2030 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2031 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2032 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2033 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2034 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2035 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2036 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2037 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2038 retry value
2039 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2040 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2041 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2042 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2043 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2044 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2045 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2046 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2047 [21537] libc:
2048 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2049 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2050 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2051 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2052 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2053 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2054 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2055 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2056 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2057 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2058 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2059 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2060 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2061 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2062 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2063 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2064 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2065 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2066 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2067 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2068 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2069 issue on x86-64
2070 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2071 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2072 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2073 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2074 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2075 construction
2076 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2077 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2078 between_2_3
2079 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2080 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2081 conditions
2082 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2083 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2084 Hindi Locale
2085 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2086 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2087 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2088 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2089 locale
2090 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2091 leading to relocation crash
2092 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2093 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2094 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2095 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2096 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2097 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2098 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2099 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2100 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2101 locale
2102 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2103 locale
2104 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2105 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2106 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2107 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2108 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2109 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2110 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2111 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2112 strings
2113 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2114 protector=all
2115 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2116 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
2117 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2118 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2119 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2120 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2121 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2122 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2123 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2124 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2125 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2126 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2127 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2128 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2129 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2130 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2131 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2132 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2133 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2134 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2135 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2136 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2137 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2138 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2139 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2140 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2141 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2142 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2143 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2144 with unicode 9.0
2145 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2146 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2147 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2148 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2149 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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2153
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2154* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2155 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2156 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2157 Library.
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2159* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2160 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 2161 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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2163
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2164* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2165 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2166 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2167 the GNU C Library.
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2170 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2171 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2172 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2173 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2174 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2175 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2176 will not.
2177
2178 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2179 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2180 many years.
2181
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2183 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2184 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2185
2186 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2187 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2188 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2189 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2190 problem.
2191
ec94343f 2192* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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2193 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2194 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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2197 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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2198 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2199 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2200 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2201 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2202 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2203 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2204 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2205 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2206 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2207 WINT_WIDTH.
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2209* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2210
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2211 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2212
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2213 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2214 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2215 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 2216
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2217 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2218 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2219
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2220 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2221 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2222
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2223 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2224
29cb9293 2225 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 2226
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2227 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2228 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 2229
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2230 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2231
eb3c12c7 2232 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 2233 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 2234
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2235* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2236 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2237
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NA
2238* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2239 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2240 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2241
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ZW
2242* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2243 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2244 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2245 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2246 effects of the memory clear).
2247
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2248* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2249 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2250 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2251 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2252
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2253* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2254 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2255 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2256 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2257 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2258 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 2259
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2260* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2261 have been added.
2262
705a79f8
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2263* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2264 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2265 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2266 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2267 as large as several megabytes.
2268
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2269* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2270 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2271 been removed.
2272
e863cce5
FW
2273* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2274 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2275 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2276 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2277 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2278 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2279 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2280
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2281* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2282 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2283 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2284 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2285
099191b1 2286* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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2287 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2288 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2289 Internet.
2290
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2291* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2292 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2293 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 2294
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2295* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2296 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2297 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2298 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2299
3a2a1d2c
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2300* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2301 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2302 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2303 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2304 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2305
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FW
2306* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2307 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2308 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2309 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2310 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2311
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FW
2312* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2313 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2314 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2315 did not reflect that.
2316
022dfdce
SL
2317* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2318 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2319 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2320 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2321 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2322 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2323 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2324 'gcc/config.gcc'.
2325
23b5cae1
MG
2326* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2327 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2328 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2329 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2330
7715d3ab
SP
2331* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2332 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2333 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2334 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2335
0cea3587
SP
2336* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2337 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2338 guarantees.
2339
2340* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2341 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2342 make state changes.
2343
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2344Security related changes:
2345
fc82b0a2 2346* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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2347 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2348 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2349 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 2350 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 2351
fc82b0a2
FW
2352* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2353 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2354 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2355 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2356 (CVE-2015-5180)
2357
e720d3d9
CD
2358The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2359
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SP
2360 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
2361 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2362 protector-all
2363 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2364 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2365 before it started waiting
2366 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2367 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2368 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2369 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2370 wrong type
2371 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2372 library linked with pthread
2373 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2374 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2375 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2376 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2377 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2378 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2379 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2380 when it shouldnt
2381 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2382 not
2383 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2384 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2385 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2386 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2387 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2388 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2389 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2390 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2391 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2392 termination
2393 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2394 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2395 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2396 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2397 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2398 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2399 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2400 causes a segmentation fault
2401 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2402 linking
2403 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2404 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2405 uninitialized GOT
2406 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2407 versions
2408 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2409 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2410 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2411 is always true.
2412 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2413 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2414 modes
2415 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2416 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2417 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2418 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2419 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2420 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2421 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2422 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2423 libpthread.a
2424 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2425 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2426 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2427 _res_hconf
2428 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2429 information.
2430 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2431 penalty
2432 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2433 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2434 cause transition penalty
2435 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2436 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2437 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2438 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2439 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2440 mcount.oS)
2441 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2442 Checking
2443 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2444 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2445 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2446 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2447 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2448 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2449 multi-arch
2450 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2451 (RES_USEBSTRING)
2452 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2453 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2454 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2455 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2456 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2457 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2458 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2459 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2460 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2461 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2462 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2463 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2464 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2465 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2466 glibc
2467 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2468 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2469 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2470 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2471 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2472 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2473 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2474 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2475 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2476 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2477 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2478 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2479 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2480 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2481 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2482 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2483 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2484 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2485 RES_USE_INET6
2486 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2487 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2488 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2489 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2490 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2491 wrong condition
2492 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2493 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
2494 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
2495 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
2496 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
2497 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
2498 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
2499 clang
2500 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
2501 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
2502 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
2503 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
2504 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 2505\f
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2506Version 2.24
2507
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2508* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2509 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
2510 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
2511 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
2512 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
2513 architectures.
2514
b6ebba70
MF
2515* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
2516 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
2517 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 2518
7584a3f9
FW
2519* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
2520 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
2521
b49ab5f4
FW
2522* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
2523 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
2524 instead of “union wait”.
2525
ced8f893
SG
2526* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
2527 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
2528 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
2529 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
2530 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
2531 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
2532 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
2533
2ba3cfa1
FW
2534* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
2535 API.
2536
b7a9b7b0
MF
2537* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
2538 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
2539 drop it.
6a54bcda 2540
41a359e2
RS
2541* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
2542 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
2543 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
2544 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
2545 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
2546 extensions.
2547
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AZ
2548Security related changes:
2549
f5b3338d
FW
2550* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
2551 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
2552 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
2553
4ab2ab03
FW
2554* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
2555 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
2556 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
2557 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 2558
5171f307
FW
2559* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
2560 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
2561 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
2562
bc779a1a
FW
2563* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
2564 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
2565 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
2566
fab38231
FW
2567* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
2568 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
2569 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
2570 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
2571
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AZ
2572The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2573
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CD
2574 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
2575 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
2576 of MS-DOS.
2577 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
2578 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
2579 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
2580 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
2581 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
2582 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
2583 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
2584 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
2585 CLDR data
2586 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
2587 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
2588 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
2589 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
2590 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
2591 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
2592 romanisation
2593 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2594 and +/-
2595 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2596 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2597 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2598 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2599 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2600 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2601 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2602 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2603 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2604 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2605 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2606 all locales
2607 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2608 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2609 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2610 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2611 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2612 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2613 execute
2614 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2615 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2616 -Wsystem-headers
2617 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2618 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2619 Romanian locale data
2620 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2621 symbol
2622 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2623 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2624 language
2625 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2626 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2627 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2628 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2629 machine
2630 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2631 description
2632 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2633 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2634 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2635 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2636 when using RTLD_NEXT
2637 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2638 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2639 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2640 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2641 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2642 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2643 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2644 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2645 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2646 Excavator core
2647 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2648 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2649 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2650 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2651 double range
2652 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2653 part zero incorrect
2654 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2655 equality tests
2656 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2657 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2658 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2659 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2660 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2661 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2662 glibc-2.22
2663 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2664 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2665 'tst-numeric.c'
2666 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2667 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2668 low part
2669 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2670 result
2671 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2672 unaligned stack
2673 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2674 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2675 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2676 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2677 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2678 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2679 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2680 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2681 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2682 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2683 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2684 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2685 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2686 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2687 modes
2688 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2689 server addresses
2690 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2691 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2692 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2693 response to getaddrinfo
2694 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2695 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2696 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2697 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2698 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2699 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2700 sometimes incorrect
2701 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2702 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2703 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2704 record types
2705 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2706 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2707 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2708 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2709 (CVE-2016-3075)
2710 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2711 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2712 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2713 resolving symbols
2714 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2715 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2716 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2717 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2718 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2719 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2720 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2721 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2722 gethosts
2723 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2724 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2725 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2726 (CVE-2016-3706)
2727 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2728 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2729 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2730 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2731 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2732 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2733 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2734 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2735 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2736 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2737 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2738 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2739 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2740 executable
2741 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2742 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2743 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2744 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2745 XPG3
2746 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2747 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2748 (CVE-2016-4429)
2749 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2750 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2751 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2752 AS not supporting AVX512
2753 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2754 sNaN argument
2755 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2756 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2757 argument
2758 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2759 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2760 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2761 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2762 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2763 eax=0x80000001
2764 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2765 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2766 subnormals
2767 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2768 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2769 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2770 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2771 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2772 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2773 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2774 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2775 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2776 input
2777 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2778 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2779 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2780 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2781 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2782 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2783 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2784 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2785 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2786 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2787 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2788 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2789 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2790 double rounding
2791 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2792 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2793 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2794 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2795 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2796 (Only arm/linux)
2797 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2798 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2799 fallbacks
2800 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2801 "invalid" exceptions
2802 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2803 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2804 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2805 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2806 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2807 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2808 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2809 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2810 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 2811\f
aeb47bbc
DM
2812Version 2.23
2813
23256f5e
MF
2814* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2815 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2816 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2817 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2818 89, 16061, and 18568.
2819
2359035a
FW
2820* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2821 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2822 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2823 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2824 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2825 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2826 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2827
8b7b7f75
MW
2828* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2829 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2830 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2831
2eecc8af
FW
2832* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2833 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2834 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2835 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2836 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2837 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2838 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2839
a62719ba
FW
2840* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2841 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2842 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2843 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2844 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 2845 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
2846 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2847 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 2848
bc148ca1
MF
2849* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2850 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2851 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2852 independent of the GNU C Library.
2853
1c70b6f1
ZW
2854* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2855 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 2856
eed3e1eb
JM
2857* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2858 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2859 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2860 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2861 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2862 Linux kernel.
2863
1efad39b
SL
2864* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2865 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 2866
d709042a
JM
2867* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2868 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2869 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2870 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2871 defining their own copy.
2872
b08b4218
JM
2873* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2874 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2875 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 2876
8f5e8b01
JM
2877Security related changes:
2878
6400ae6e
FW
2879* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2880 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2881
2882* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2883 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2884 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2885 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2886 (CVE-2015-8777)
2887
2888* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2889 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2890
2891* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2892 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
2893
8f5e8b01
JM
2894* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2895 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 2896 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 2897
e9db92d3
CD
2898* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2899 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2900 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2901 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2902 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2903 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2904 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2905 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2906 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2907 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2908 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2909 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2910 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2911
ad372e29 2912The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 2913
ad372e29
AZ
2914 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate ÊÞÄ
2915 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2916 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2917 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2918 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2919 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2920 use `mkstemp'
2921 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2922 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2923 overflow/underflow errors
2924 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2925 overflow/underflow
2926 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2927 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2928 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2929 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2930 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2931 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2932 are not contiguous
2933 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2934 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2935 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2936 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2937 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2938 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2939 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2940 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2941 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2942 all exceptions
2943 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2944 arguments
2945 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2946 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2947 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2948 should include
2949 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2950 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2951 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2952 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2953 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2954 GNU/Linux
2955 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2956 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2957 arguments
2958 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2959 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2960 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2961 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2962 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2963 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2964 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2965 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2966 rounding results
2967 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2968 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2969 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2970 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2971 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2972 fails
2973 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2974 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2975 block boundary
2976 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2977 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2978 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2979 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2980 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2981 4.7?
2982 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2983 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2984 (related to lock elision)
2985 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2986 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2987 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2988 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2989 (CVE-2015-8779)
2990 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2991 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2992 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2993 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2994 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2995 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2996 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2997 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2998 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2999 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3000 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3001 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3002 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3003 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3004 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3005 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3006 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3007 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3008 contains a vector instruction exception.
3009 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3010 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3011 locales
3012 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3013 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3014 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3015 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3016 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3017 missing break ?
3018 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3019 32bit processes
3020 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3021 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3022 infinity
3023 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3024 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3025 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3026 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3027 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3028 be forced unloaded
3029 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3030 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3031 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3032 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3033 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3034 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3035 statically too large
3036 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3037 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3038 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3039 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3040 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3041 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3042 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3043 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3044 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3045 FUTEX_SHARED
3046 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3047 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3048 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3049 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3050 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3051 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3052 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3053 opendir()
3054 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3055 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3056 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3057 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3058 signgam
3059 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3060 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3061 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3062 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3063 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3064 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3065 dependencies
3066 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3067 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3068 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3069 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3070 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3071 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3072 (CVE-2015-8776)
3073 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3074 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3075 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3076 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3077 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3078 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3079 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3080 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3081 contention
3082 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3083 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3084 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3085 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3086 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3087 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3088 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3089 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3090 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3091 rounding modes
3092 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3093 ILP32
3094 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3095 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3096 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3097 threshold
3098 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3099 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3100 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3101 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3102 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3103 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3104 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3105 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3106 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3107 pthread_setaffinity_np
3108 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3109 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3110 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3111 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3112 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3113 prelink
3114 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3115 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3116 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3117 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3118 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3119 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3120 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3121 bits/mathcalls.h
3122 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3123 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3124 for C99-based standards
3125 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3126 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3127 math-only
3128 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3129 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3130 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3131 disabled
3132 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3133 "inexact" exceptions
3134 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3135 arguments
3136 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3137 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3138 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3139 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3140 rules
3141 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3142 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3143 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3144 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3145 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3146 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3147 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3148 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3149 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3150 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3151 from 32bit
3152 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3153 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3154 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3155 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3156 subnormals
3157 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3158 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3159 error on 32-bit architectures
3160 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3161 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3162 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3163 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3164 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3165 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3166 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3167 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3168 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3169 -Os
3170 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3171 CPU's.
3172 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3173 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3174 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3175 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3176 architectures
3177 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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3179Version 2.22
3180
3181* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3182
3df5cd98 3183 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
3184 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3185 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3186 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3187 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3188 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3189 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3190 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3191 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3192 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3193 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3194 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3195 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3196 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3197 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3198 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3199 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3200 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
3201 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3202 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 3203
f7fba805
SL
3204* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3205 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3206
2959eda9
AS
3207* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3208 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3209 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3210 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3211 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3212 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 3213
42261ad7
FW
3214* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3215 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3216 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3217 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3218 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3219
afcd9480
AM
3220* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3221 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3222 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3223
4a4839c9
AO
3224* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3225 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3226 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3227 17998.
3228
b13b96ca
AS
3229* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3230 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3231 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
3232
3233* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
3234 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3235 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
3236 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3237 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
3238 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3239 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 3240 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
3241
3242* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3243 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3244 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3245 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
3246
3247* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3248 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3249 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
3250
3251* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3252 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
3253
3254* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3255 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3256 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3257
a03ba363 3258 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
3259 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3260 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 3261\f
58b930ae
SP
3262Version 2.21
3263
3264* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3265
042e1521 3266 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
3267 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3268 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3269 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3270 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3271 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3272 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3273 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3274 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3275 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3276 17892.
3277
46d54873
FW
3278* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3279 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3280 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3281 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3282 intended.
042e1521
CD
3283
3284* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3285 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3286 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3287 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3288 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3289 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 3290
522e6ee3
CLT
3291* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3292
d3b00f46
AZ
3293* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3294 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 3295 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 3296
8d2c0a59
AZ
3297* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3298 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3299 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3300 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3301 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3302 effects being visible outside transactions.
3303
dc400d7b
RE
3304* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3305 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 3306
0f9dfe04
L
3307* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3308
a39208bd
CD
3309* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3310 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 3311 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
3312 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3313 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 3314
a5357b7c
JL
3315* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3316 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3317
e54db0ea
AM
3318* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3319 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3320 format.
11e3417a 3321
4863355a
JM
3322* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3323 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3324 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3325
a4ecc9eb
JM
3326* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3327 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3328
0d560bbf 3329* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
3330
3331* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3332 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3333 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3334 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
3335
3336* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3337 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
3338
3339* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3340 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3341 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3342 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3343 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3344 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3345 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3346 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3347 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3348 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3349 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3350 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3351 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3352
3353 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3354 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3355 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3356 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3357 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 3358\f
d5b396c1
AM
3359Version 2.20
3360
3361* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3362
6a9350c8
JM
3363 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3364 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3365 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3366 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3367 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3368 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3369 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3370 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3371 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3372 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3373 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3374 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3375 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3376 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3377 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 3378
95ee7fb1
SL
3379* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3380 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3381 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3382 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3383 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 3384 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
3385 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3386 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3387 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3388 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3389
0961f7e1
JL
3390* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3391 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3392 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3393 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3394 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 3395
f940b965
RE
3396* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3397
d0f5b3f8
JM
3398* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3399 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3400
d6fe5e58
JM
3401* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3402 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3403 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3404 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3405 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3406 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3407
464263cc
JM
3408* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3409 from ports.
c941736c
JM
3410
3411* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3412 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3413 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3414 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3415 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3416 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3417 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
3418
3419* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
3420
3421* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3422 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3423 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3424 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3425 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3426 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3427 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
3428
3429* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3430 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3431 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3432 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3433 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
3434
3435* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3436 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3437 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
3438
3439* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3440 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3441 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3442 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
3443
3444* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3445 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3446 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3447 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3448 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3449 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3450 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3451 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
3452
3453* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3454 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3455 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3456 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3457 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3458 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3459 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3460 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3461 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
3462
3463* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3464 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3465 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3466 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3467 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 3468 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
3469
3470* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3471 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3472 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3473 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
3474\f
3475Version 2.19
3476
3477* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3478
fd2f9486
JM
3479 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3480 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3481 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3482 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3483 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3484 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3485 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3486 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3487 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3488 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
3489 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3490 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3491 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
3492 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
3493 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
3494 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
3495 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
3496 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 3497
11520a57
CD
3498* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
3499 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
3500
2fe16229
CD
3501* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
3502 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
3503 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
3504 extension which uses __block.
3505
303e567a
SP
3506* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
3507 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
3508 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
3509 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
3510 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
3511
141f3a77
SP
3512* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
3513 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
3514 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
3515 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
3516 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
3517
3518* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
3519 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
3520 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
3521 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
3522 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
3523
3524* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
3525 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
3526 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
3527
ba0d798c
WN
3528* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
3529 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
3530 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
3531 #15856, #15857).
3532
7cbcdb36
SP
3533* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
3534 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
3535
82bab04b 3536* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 3537 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 3538
c5f840fd
MB
3539* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
3540
3e181dda
CD
3541* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
3542 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 3543
3e181dda 3544* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 3545
8a05c252
CL
3546* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
3547
6055173a
JM
3548* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
3549 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
3550 for which the C library was built.
3551
b125d3e5
JM
3552* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
3553 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
3554 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
3555 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
3556 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
3557 in the following circumstances:
3558
3559 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
3560
3561 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
3562 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
3563
d4f66d37
JM
3564* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
3565 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
3566
3e181dda
CD
3567* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
3568 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 3569
ffb89e53
AO
3570* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
3571
5d29ccce
SP
3572* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
3573 transcendental functions have been introduced.
3574
8b7d57cd 3575* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
3576
3577* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 3578
fd712ef3 3579* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 3580
c688b419
JM
3581* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
3582 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
3583 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
3584 disable some of those declarations.
3585
7011c262 3586* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
3587 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
3588 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
3589
3590* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
3591 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
3592
3593* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3594 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3595 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3596 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3597 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3598 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3599 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3600 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3601 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3602 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3603 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3604 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3605 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
3606\f
3607Version 2.18
3608
3609* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3610
17db6e8d 3611 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
3612 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3613 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
3614 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3615 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3616 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3617 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3618 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3619 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3620 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3621 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3622 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3623 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3624 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
3625
3626* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3627 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3628 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3629 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3630 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3631 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 3632
5b535ac4
AS
3633* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3634 #15078).
3635
1cef1b19
AS
3636* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3637 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 3638
55e4107b
SP
3639* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3640 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3641 destructor calls to glibc.
3642
e5c74c63
SP
3643* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3644 output.
3645
3646* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3647 non-x86 architectures.
3648
e7521973
JM
3649* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3650
3651* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3652
3653* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3654 Richard Henderson.
3655
3656* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3657
3658* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3659 Richard Henderson.
3660
3661* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3662 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3663
8cfdb7e0
SP
3664* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3665
57267616
TS
3666* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3667 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 3668
c204ab28
SP
3669* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3670 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 3671
0748546f
PE
3672* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3673 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3674 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3675
61dd6208
SP
3676* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3677 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3678 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
3679
3680* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3681 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3682 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3683 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3684 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
3685
3686* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3687 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3688
3689* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
3690\f
3691Version 2.17
3692
3693* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3694
80ceeaee 3695 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
3696 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3697 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3698 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3699 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3700 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3701 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3702 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3703 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3704 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3705 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3706 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3707 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3708 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3709 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 3710
95b4f1b6
SE
3711* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3712
14bc93a9
JL
3713* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3714 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 3715
b54eb3cb
JM
3716* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3717 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3718
7e2bd01f
MS
3719* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3720
08f43f9b
AK
3721* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3722 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3723 zEnterprise z196.
3724 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3725
84b3fd84
FW
3726* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3727 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3728 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3729
815e6fa3
GB
3730* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3731 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3732
400726de
MK
3733* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3734 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3735
7aab07e4 3736* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 3737 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 3738
15d0da8c
WS
3739* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3740 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3741
3cc3ef96
RM
3742* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3743 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
3744 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3745 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 3746
b54eb3cb
JM
3747* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3748 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3749
85429b1a 3750* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 3751 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
3752 default.
3753
b54eb3cb
JM
3754* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3755 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3756 information in --help and --version output.
3757
050af9c4
SP
3758* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3759 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3760 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3761
89a3ad0b
AO
3762* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3763 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3764 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3765 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3766 when the mode is enabled.
3767
6e6249d0
RM
3768* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3769 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3770 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3771 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3772 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3773 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3774 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 3775
d9286582
NK
3776* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3777 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
UD
3778\f
3779Version 2.16
3780
3781* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3782
a8133e19
JM
3783 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3784 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3785 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3786 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3787 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3788 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3789 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3790 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3791 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3792 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3793 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3794 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3795 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3796 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3797 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3798 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3799 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3800 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3801 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3802 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3803 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3804 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3805 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 3806
a086b4d6
L
3807* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3808 configuring glibc with:
3809 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3810 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3811 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3812
380d7e87
UD
3813* ISO C11 support:
3814
3815 + define static_assert
3816
3817 + do not declare gets
3818
3819 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3820
3821 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3822 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3823 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3824 implementation.
8d44e150 3825
74033a25 3826 + timespec_get added
544563c9
UD
3827
3828 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 3829
ac097f5c
UD
3830 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3831
16dd419d
UD
3832 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3833
9dc4e1fb 3834* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
UD
3835
3836* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
3837
3838* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3839 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
3840
3841* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3842 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
3843
3844* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3845 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3846 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3847 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3848 existing applications.
ffb7875d 3849
21708942 3850* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
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3851 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3852 before 2.6.
83678f76 3853
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3854* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3855 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3856 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3857
83678f76 3858* New locales: mag_IN
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3859
3860* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3861 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3862 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3863 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3864 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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3865
3866* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3867
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3868* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3869 and Will Schmidt.
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3870
3871* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3872
3873* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3874 without a previously built glibc.
3875
3876* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3877 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3878
3879* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3880 now supported for ARM processors.
3881
3882* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3883 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3884 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3885
3886* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
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3887
3888* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3889 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3890 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3891 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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3892
3893* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3894 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3895 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3896 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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3897
3898* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3899 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3900 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3901 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3902 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3903
3904* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3905 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3906 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3907 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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3911* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3912
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3913 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3914 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3915 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3916 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3917 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3918 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3919 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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3921* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3922 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3923
3924* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3925 and support for initgroups lookups.
3926 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3927
3928* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3929 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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3930
3931* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3932 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 3933
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3934* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3935 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 3936 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 3937
d42964a0 3938* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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3939 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3940
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3941* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3942 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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3943 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3944
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3945* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3946 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3947
3948* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3949 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3950
3951* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3952 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3953
3954* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3955 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3956
3957* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3958 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3959
3960* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3961 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3963* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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3964
3965* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3966 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 3967
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3968* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3969 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 3970
6b64057b 3971* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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9f94d2ea 3974
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3975* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3976
553149f6 3977 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3978 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3979 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3980 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3981 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3982 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3983 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3984 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3985 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3986 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 3987
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3988* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3989 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3990 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3991 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3993 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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3994 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3995 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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3996 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3997
c6489db3 3998* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3999 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 4000
72d1dddb 4001* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 4002 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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4003
4004* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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4006* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4007 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4008
4009* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4010 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4011 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4012 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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4014Version 2.13
4015
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4016* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4017
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4018 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4019 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4020 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4021 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4022 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 4023
10b3bedc 4024* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 4025
ac2b484c 4026* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 4027
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4028* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4029 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 4030 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4032Version 2.12
4033
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4034* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4035
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4036 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4037 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4038 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4039 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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4040 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4041 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4042 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 4043 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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4044
4045* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 4046
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4047* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4048
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4049* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4050
4051* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4052 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4053 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4054
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4055* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4056 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4057 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4058 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4059 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4060
d36b9613 4061* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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4062\f
4063Version 2.11
4064
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4065* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4066
4067 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4068 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4069 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4070 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4071 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4072 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4073
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4074* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4075 mkostemps64
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4076 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4077
24ab9c76 4078* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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4079 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4080
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4081* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4082 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4083
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4084* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4085
0122f28e 4086* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 4087 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 4088 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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4089 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4090
9d36a6c4 4091 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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4092 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4093
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4094* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4095 strstr, strcasestr.
4096 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4097
4098* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4099 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4100
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4101* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4102 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4103
4104* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4105 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4106
4107* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4108 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4109 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4110 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4111 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4112 necessity is every process again.
4113 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4114
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4115* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4116 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4117
4118* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4119 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4120
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4121* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4122 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4123 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4124
9dd5b8a1 4125* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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4126\f
4127Version 2.10
4128
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4129* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4130
4131 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4132 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4133 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4134 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4135 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4136
bb066545 4137* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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4138 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4139
425ce2ed 4140* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 4141 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 4142
1fdd89a7 4143* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 4144 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
1fdd89a7 4145
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4146* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4147 now in POSIX.
77db439e 4148
1f04d005 4149* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 4150 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 4151
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4152* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4153 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4154
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4155* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4156 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4157
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4158* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4159 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4160
4161* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4162 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4163 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4164
735be400 4165* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 4166
84aa52d7 4167* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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4168 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4169
4170* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4171 and extend existing format specifiers.
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4172 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4173
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4174* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4175 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4176
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4177* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4178 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4179 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4180 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4181 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4182 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4184Version 2.9
4185
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4186* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4187
4188 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
4189 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
4190 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
4191 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
4192 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4193
b29899ae 4194* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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4195 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4196
4197* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4198 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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4199
4200* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4201 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4202
4203* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4204 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4205 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4206
4207* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4208 Implemented by Eric Blake.
e038616f 4209
8ec2550e 4210* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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4211
4212* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 4213 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
e038616f 4214
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4215* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4216 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4217 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4218 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4219
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4220* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4221 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4223* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4224 Sinhala)
48b22986 4225 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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4226
4227* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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4230
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4231* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4232
4233 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4234 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4235 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4236 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4237 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4238 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4239 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4240
e038616f 4241* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 4242
77751669 4243* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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4245* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4246 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4247
4248* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4249
4250* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4251 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4252
4253* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4254 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4255
4256* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4257 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4258 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4259
4260* Faster memset for x86-64.
4261 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4262
4263* Faster memcpy on x86.
4264 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4265
4266* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4267 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4269* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 4270 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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4272Version 2.7
4273
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4274* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4275
4276 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4277 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4278 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4279 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4280 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4281
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4283 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4284
4285* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4286
4287* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4288 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4289 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4290
4291* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4292 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4293
28919a77 4294* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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4295 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4296
4297* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4298
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4299* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4300 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4301
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4302* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4303 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4304
4305* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4306 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4307
4308* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4309
4310* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4311 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4313* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4314 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4315 yo_NG.
4316
4317+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4318 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4323
4324 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4325 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4326 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4327 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4328 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4329 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4330 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4331 4702, 4858
4332
bce20b9a 4333* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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4336
b21fa963 4337* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4340
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4341* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4342
4343 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4344 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4345 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4346 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4347 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4348 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4349 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4350 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4351 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4352
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4355 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4357* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4358 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4359
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4362* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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4364* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4365 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4366 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 4367 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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4368 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4369
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4371 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4372 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4373 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4374
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4376 Ulrich Drepper.
4377
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4378* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4379
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4380* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4381 Ulrich Drepper.
4382
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4383* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4384
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4385* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4386 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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4389
4390* More overflow detection functions.
4391
4392* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4393 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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4395 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4396 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4397 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4398 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4399 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4400 by Masahide Washizawa.
4401
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4402* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4403 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4405* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4406 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4407 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4408 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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4410* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4411 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4412
4413* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4414
4415* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4416 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4417 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4418
4419* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4420 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4421
4422* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4423 for compatibility with some other systems.
4424
4425* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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4427Version 2.3.6
4428
4429* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4430
4431 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4432 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4433 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4434 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4435 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4436 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4437
5a82c748 4438 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4440* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4441
4442* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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4444Version 2.3.5
4445
4446* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4447
4448 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4449 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4450 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4451 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4452
5a82c748 4453 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4455Version 2.3.4
4456
4457* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4458 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4459
4460* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4461 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4462 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4463
4464* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4465 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4466
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4468 efficiently.
4469 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4470
4471* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4472 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4473 handling data.
4474
4475* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4476 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 4477 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4479* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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4480 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4481
4482* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4483 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4484 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4485 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4486
4487* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4488 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4489 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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4490 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4491
4492* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
4493 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
4494 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
4495 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
4496 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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4498Version 2.3.3
4499
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4500* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
4501 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
4502
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4503* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
4504 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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4508
4509* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
4510 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4512* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
4513 by Roland McGrath.
4514
c5af724c 4515* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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4516 and Ulrich Drepper.
4517
4518* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
4519 RFC 3484.
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4521Version 2.3.2
4522
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4523* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
4524 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
4525 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
4526 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
4527 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
4528 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
4529 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
4530 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
4531 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
4532
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4533* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
4534 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
4535 and are now also available on the Hurd.
4536
4537* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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4538
4539* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
4540 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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4542* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
4543 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
4544
52a16e58 4545* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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4547* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
4548 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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4549
4550* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
4551 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
4552 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
4553 of weak definition in ld.so.
4554
4555* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
4556 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
4557
4558* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
4559 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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4563* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
4564 charsets.
4565
4566* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
4567 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 4569* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 4570 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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4572* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
4573 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
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bb0ec5bd 4575* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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4576 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
4577 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4579* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
4580 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 4581
bb0ec5bd 4582* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 4583 implementation of regex.
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4584
4585* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
4586 Unicode 3.2.
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4588* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
4589 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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4591* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
4592 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
4593 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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4594
4595* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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4597
4598* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4599 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4600 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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4601
4602* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4603 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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4604
4605* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4606 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4607 and Ulrich Drepper.
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4609* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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4611Version 2.2.6
4612
4613* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4614 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4615
4616* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4617 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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4619Version 2.2.5
4620
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4621* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4622 128-bit long double format.
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4624* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4625 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 4626
ad2e4f18 4627* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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4629* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4630
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4631* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4632 as well.
4633
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4634* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4635 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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4637* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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4639Version 2.2.4
4640
2995f70e 4641* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 4642 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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4643
4644* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4645 support Unicode 3.1.
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4646
4647* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4648 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 4649
69d5f925 4650* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 4651
69d5f925 4652* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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4653 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4654 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4655
4656* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4657 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4658
4659* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4660 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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4661
4662* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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4664Version 2.2.3
4665
1746f2b0 4666* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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4667 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4668 in float, double, and long double format.
4669
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4671 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4672 128-bit long double format.
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4674* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4675 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4676 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4677 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4678
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4680 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4681 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4683* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4684 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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4685
4686* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4687 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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4689* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4690 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4691 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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4692
4693* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4694 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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4696* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4697 of functions for Linux/x86.
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4699* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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4701Version 2.2.2
4702
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4704 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4705 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4706 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4707 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4708 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4709 other headers.
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4711* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4712 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4713
4714* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4715 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4716 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4717 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4718
4719* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4720 locales. While
4721
4722 locale -a
4723
4724 only lists the names of the supported locales
4725
4726 locale -a --verbose
4727
4728 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4729 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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4732
4733* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4734 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4735 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4736 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4737 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4738
4739 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4740
4741 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4742
4743 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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4745* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4746 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4747 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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4749* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4750 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4751
4752* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4753 changed from the default "C" locale.
4754
4755* The usual bug fixes.
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4758
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4759* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4760 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4761 is in progress.
4762
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4763* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4764
793bd4d9 4765* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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4767 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4768 obviously requires a database library being available.
4769
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4770* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4771
abbffdf9 4772* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 4773
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4774* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4775 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4776
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4777* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4778
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4779* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4780 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4781 and Mark Kettenis.
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4782
4783 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4784 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4785 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 4786
a00c3ca9 4787 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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4788 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4789
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4790* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4791 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4792 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4793
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4794* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4795 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4796 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4797 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4798
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4799 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4800 structures for the wide character tables.
4801
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4802* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4803
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4804* The utmp daemon has been removed.
4805
4806* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4807
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4808* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4809 and Yutaka Niibe.
4810
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4811* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4812
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4813* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4814
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4815* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4816
4817* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4818
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4819* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4820
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4822 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4823 implemented for Linux.
4824
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4825* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4826 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4827 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4828 versions.
4829
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4830* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4831 Masahide Washizawa.
4832
8f3f1e09 4833* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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4835Version 2.1.3
4836
4837* bug fixes
4838
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4840Version 2.1.2
4841
4842* bug fixes
4843
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4845Version 2.1.1
4846
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4847* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4848
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4849* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4850
407d26b7 4851* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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4852
4853* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4854
407d26b7 4855* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 4856
407d26b7 4857* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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4858
4859* Update timezone data files.
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4861* lots of charmaps corrections
4862
4863* some new locale definitions and charmaps
4864
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4866Version 2.1
4867
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4868* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4869 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4870 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4871 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4872 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4873 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4874
c84142e8 4875* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 4876 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 4877
1fb05e3d 4878* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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4879 symbol level.
4880
4881* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4882 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 4883
cbdee279 4884* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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4885
4886* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 4887 numbers.
377a515b 4888
cbdee279 4889* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
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4891* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4892 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 4893
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4894* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4895 library.
4896
e61abf83 4897* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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4898 functions from ISO C 9X.
4899
4900* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4901 real valued functions.
e61abf83 4902
a5a0310d 4903* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 4904
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4905* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4906
4907* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 4908
440d13e2 4909* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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4910
4911* Optimized string functions have been added.
4912
4913* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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4914
4915* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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4917* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4918 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4919
4920 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4921 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4922
0dee6738 4923 user system wall
48244d09 4924
0dee6738 4925 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 4926
0dee6738 4927 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 4928
0dee6738 4929 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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4931 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4932
4933 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4934
4935 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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4937 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
4938 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 4939 horribly slow.
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4941 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4942 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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4944* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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4945
4946* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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4947
4948* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4949 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4950
4951* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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4953* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4954 Bambrough.
4955
4956* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4957 latest draft standards.
4958
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4960
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4961* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
4962~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 4963addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4964alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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4965argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4966argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4967argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4968argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4969argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4970argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4971argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4972argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4973argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4974argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4975authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
4976authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4977authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4978backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4979backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4980backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4981cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4982cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4983cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4984cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4985cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4986cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4987capget NEW: kernel
4988capset NEW: kernel
4989carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4990cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4991cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4992casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4993casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4994casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4995casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4996casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4997casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4998catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4999catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5000catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5001catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5002catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5003catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 5004cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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5005ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
5006ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5007ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5008ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5009ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5010ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5011cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
5012cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
5013cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
5014cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
5015cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5016cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5017clearerr_locked REMOVED
5018clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5019clog NEW: ISO C 9x
5020clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5021clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5022clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5023clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
5024clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
5025conj NEW: ISO C 9x
5026conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
5027conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
5028cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
5029cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
5030cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
5031cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
5032cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5033cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5034creal NEW: ISO C 9x
5035crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5036creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5037creat64 NEW: LFS
5038csin NEW: ISO C 9x
5039csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5040csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5041csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5042csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5043csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5044csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
5045csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5046csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5047ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
5048ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5049ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5050ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5051ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5052ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5053des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5054ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5055endutxent NEW: Unix98
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5056exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5057exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5058exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5059exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5060exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5061exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5062fattach NEW: STREAMS
5063fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5064fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
5065fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
5066fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
5067feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5068fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5069fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5070fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5071feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5072feof_locked REMOVED
5073feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5074ferror_locked REMOVED
5075fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5076fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5077fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5078fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5079feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5080fflush_locked REMOVED
5081ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
5082ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
5083fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
5084fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5085fileno_locked REMOVED
5086fma NEW: ISO C 9x
5087fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5088fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
5089fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
5090fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
5091fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
5092fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
5093fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
5094fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 5095fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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5096fopen64 NEW: LFS
5097fputc_locked REMOVED
5098fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5099fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5100freopen64 NEW: LFS
5101fseeko NEW: Unix98
5102fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
5103fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
5104fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5105fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
5106ftello NEW: Unix98
5107ftello64 NEW: LFS
5108ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5109ftw64 NEW: LFS
5110fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5111gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5112gamma_r REMOVED
5113gammaf_r REMOVED
5114gammal_r REMOVED
5115getchar_locked REMOVED
5116getdate NEW: Unix98
5117getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5118getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5119getmsg NEW: STREAMS
5120getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 5121getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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5122getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5123getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5124getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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5125getutxent NEW: Unix98
5126getutxid NEW: Unix98
5127getutxline NEW: Unix98
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5128glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5129globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5130gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5131gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5132grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 5133host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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5134iconv NEW: iconv
5135iconv_close NEW: iconv
5136iconv_open NEW: iconv
5137if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5138if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5139if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5140if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5141in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5142in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5143inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5144isastream NEW: STREAMS
5145iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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5146key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5147key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5148key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5149key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5150key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5151key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5152key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5153key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5154key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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5155llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5156llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5157llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5158llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5159llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5160llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5161log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5162log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5163log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5164lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5165lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5166lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5167lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5168lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5169lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5170lseek64 NEW: LFS
5171makecontext NEW: Unix98
5172mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5173mmap64 NEW: LFS
5174moncontrol REMOVED
5175modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5176nan NEW: ISO C 9x
5177nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5178nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5179nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5180nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5181nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5182netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5183netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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5184nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5185nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5186nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5187nftw NEW: Unix98
5188nftw64 NEW: LFS
5189open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 5190passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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5191pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
5192pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5193pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5194pread NEW: Unix98
5195pread64 NEW: LFS
5196printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5197printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5198profil_counter REMOVED
5199pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5200pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5201ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5202ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5203putc_locked REMOVED
5204putchar_locked REMOVED
5205putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5206putmsg NEW: STREAMS
5207putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 5208pututxline NEW: Unix98
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5209pwrite NEW: Unix98
5210pwrite64 NEW: LFS
5211readdir64 NEW: LFS
5212readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5213remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5214remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5215remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5216round NEW: ISO C 9x
5217roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5218roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5219rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5220scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5221scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5222scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5223scandir64 NEW: LFS
5224sendfile NEW: kernel
5225setcontext NEW: Unix98
5226setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 5227setutxent NEW: Unix98
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5228sighold NEW: Unix98
5229sigignore NEW: Unix98
5230sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5231sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5232sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5233sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5234sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5235sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5236sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5237sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5238statfs64 NEW: LFS
5239statvfs NEW: Unix98
5240statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5241strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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5242strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5243strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5244strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 5245svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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5246svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5247svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5248swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5249tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5250tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5251tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5252tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5253tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5254tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5255trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5256truncate64 NEW: LFS
5257truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5258truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5259umount2 NEW: kernel
5260unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 5261updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 5262user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5263utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5264versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 5265versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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5266waitid NEW: Unix98
5267wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5268wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5269wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5270wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5271wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5272wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5273wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5274wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5275wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5276wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5277write_profiling REMOVED
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5278xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5279xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5280xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5281xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5282xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5283xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5284xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5285xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5286xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5287xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5288xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5289xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5290xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5291xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 5292xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5293~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5295Version 2.0.6
5296
5297* more bug fixes
5298
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5300Version 2.0.5
5301
5302* more bug fixes
5303
5304* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5305
5306* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5307
5308* rewrite of cbrt function
5309
5310* update of timezone data
5311\f
5312Version 2.0.4
5313
5314* more bug fixes
5315\f
5316Version 2.0.3
5317
5318* more bug fixes
c84142e8 5319\f
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5321
5322* more bug fixes
5323
5324* add atoll function
5325
5326* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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5327
5328* fix math functions
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5330Version 2.0.1
5331
5332* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5333
5334* dynamic loader preserves all registers
5335
5336* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5337 the ELF dynamic loader.
5338
5339* support for parallel builds is improved
5340\f
40a4b79f 5341Version 2.0
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5343* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5344 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5345 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
5346
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5347* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5348 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5349 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5350 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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5351 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5352 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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5353 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5354 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5355 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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5356 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5357 files in the ELF format.
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5358
5359* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5360 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5361
5362* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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5363 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5364 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5365 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5366 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5367 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5368 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5369 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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5370 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5371 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5372 about dynamically linked binaries.
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5374* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5375 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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5376 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5377 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5378 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 5379
f7eac6eb 5380* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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5381 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5382 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5383 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5384 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5385
5386* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
f7eac6eb 5387
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5388* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5389 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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5390 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5391 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5392 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5393 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5394 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5395 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5396 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 5397
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5398* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5399 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5400 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5401
5402* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5403 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5404 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5405
5406* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5407 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5408 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5409 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5410
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5411* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5412 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5413 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5414
5415* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5416 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5417 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5418
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5419* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5420 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5421
f7eac6eb 5422* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 5423 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 5424 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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5425 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5426
5427* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5428 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5429 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 5430
71733723 5431* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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5432 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5433 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5434 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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5435 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5436 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 5437 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 5438 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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5439
5440* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5441 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5442 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5443 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5444 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5445 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5446 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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5447
5448* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5449 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5450 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5451 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5452 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5453 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5454
5455* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5456 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5457
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5458* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5459 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5460 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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5462* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5463
5464* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5465 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5466 their use is discouraged.
5467
5468* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5469 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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5471* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5472 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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5473
5474* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5475 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5476
5477* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5478 see <dirent.h>.
5479
5480* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5481 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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5482 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5483 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5484 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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5485
5486* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5487 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5488 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5489 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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5490
5491* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
5492 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
5493
5494* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
5495 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
5496 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
5497 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
5498 number generator.
5499
5500* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
5501 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
5502
5503* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
5504 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
5505
71733723 5506* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 5507 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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5508 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
5509 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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5511* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
5512
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5513* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
5514 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
5515 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
5516
5517* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
5518 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 5520* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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5521 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
5522 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
5523 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
5524
5525* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
5526 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
5527 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
5528 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
5529 programs already written to use it.)
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5530
5531* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
5532 constants.
5533
5534* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
5535 with 4.4 BSD.
5536
5537* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
5538 a given effective group ID.
5539
5540* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
5541 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
5542 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
5543 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
5544
5545* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 5546 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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5547 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
5548 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
5549 doing the same thing.
5550
5551* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
5552 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
5553
5554* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 5555 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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5556
5557* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
5558
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5559* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
5560 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
5561 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 5562 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 5563 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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5564
5565* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
5566 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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5567
5568* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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5569 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
5570 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
5571 function.
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5572
5573* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
5574
5575* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
5576 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
5577 strings.
5578
5579* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
5580 and writing the utmp file.
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5581
5582* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
5583 Thorsten Kukuk.
5584
5585* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
5586 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
5587 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
5588
5589* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
5590 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
5591
5592* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
5593 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5594 specification.
5595
5596* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5597 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5598 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5599 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5600
5601* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5602 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5603 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5604
5605* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5606 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5607 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5608 expression matcher.
5609
5610* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5611 functionality.
5612
5613* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5614 by Ulrich Drepper.
5615
5616* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5617
5618* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5619 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5620 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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5621\f
5622Version 1.09
5623
5624* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5625
5626* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5627 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5628
5629* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5630 want to put themselves in the background.
5631
5632* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5633 run without an operating system.
5634
5635* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5636 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5637
5638* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5639 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5640
5641* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5642
5643* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5644 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5645 have YP (aka NIS).
5646
5647* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5648 conventions.
5649
5650* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5651 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5652\f
5653Version 1.08
5654
5655* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5656 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5657 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5658
5659* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5660 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5661
5662* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5663 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5664
5665* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5666
5667* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5668
5669* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5670 compatibility.
5671
5672* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5673 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5674 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5675
5676* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5677
5678* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5679 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5680 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5681
5682* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5683 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5684 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5685 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5686 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5687 on a block).
5688
5689* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5690 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5691 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5692 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5693 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5694 cross-compiler.
5695
5696* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5697 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5698\f
5699Version 1.07
5700
5701* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5702 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5703
5704* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5705 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5706 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5707
5708* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5709 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5710 address of the last character written.
5711
5712* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5713 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5714
5715* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5716 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5717
5718* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5719 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5720 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5721 you dereference this pointer.
5722
5723* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5724 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5725
5726* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5727 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5728 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5729 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5730
5731* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5732 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5733 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5734 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5735\f
5736Version 1.06
5737
5738* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5739 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5740 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5741 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 5742 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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5743
5744* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5745
5746* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5747
5748* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5749 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5750
5751* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5752 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5753
5754* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5755 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5756
5757* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5758 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5759 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5760 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5761 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5762
5763* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5764 to the error code in `errno'.
5765
5766* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5767 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5768 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5769 malloc'd string.
5770
5771* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5772 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5773 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5774
5775* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5776 uniquely-named temporary file.
5777\f
5778Version 1.05
5779
5780* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5781 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5782 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5783
5784* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5785 characters.
5786
5787* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5788 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5789
5790* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5791\f
5792Version 1.04
5793
5794* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5795 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5796 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5797 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5798
5799* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5800 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5801 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5802
5803* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5804 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5805
5806* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5807 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5808 made itself into a shared library.
5809
5810* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5811 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5812
5813* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5814 with limited length.
5815
5816* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5817
5818* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5819
5820* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5821
5822* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5823 function for traversing a directory tree.
5824
5825* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5826 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5827 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5828 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5829
5830* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5831 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5832
5833* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5834
5835* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5836 things to your strings.
5837
5838* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5839
5840* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5841 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5842 supporting those systems.
5843
5844* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5845 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5846 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5847 configuration files.
5848
5849* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5850 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5851
5852* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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5853 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
5854 in <strings.h>.)
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5855
5856* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5857 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5858 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5859 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5860 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5861 required storage is not available.
5862
5863* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5864 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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5865
5866* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5867 latest files released from Berkeley.
5868\f
5869----------------------------------------------------------------------
5870Copyright information:
5871
5f72f980 5872Copyright (C) 1992-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5873
5874 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5875 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5876 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5877 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5878
5879 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5880 of this document, or of portions of it,
5881 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5882 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
5883\f
5884Local variables:
5885version-control: never
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