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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
bfff8b1b 2Copyright (C) 1992-2017 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 2.27
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10Major new features:
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12* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin and tan
13 with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and H.J. Lu from Intel.
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15* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
16
4ea49f4c 17* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f and powf.
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19* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
20 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
21 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
22 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
23 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
24 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
25 from a security and performance perspective.
26
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27* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
28 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
29 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
30 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
31
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32* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
33 alpha, mips64, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements _Float128
34 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These
35 are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
36 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
37
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38* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
39 mips64, powerpc64le, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
40 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
41 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
42 _Float128.
43
4bab0224 44* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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46* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
47 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
48 pkey_get.
49
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50Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
51
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52* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
53 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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55* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
56 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
57 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
58 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
59 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
60 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
61 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
62
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63* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
64 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
65 exp10l for these functions instead.
66
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67* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
68 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
69 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
70
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71* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
72 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
73 ignored.
74
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75* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
76 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
77
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78* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
79 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
80
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81* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
82 programs.
83
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84Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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86* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
87 subdirectory.
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89Security related changes:
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91 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
92 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
93 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
94 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
95 script.)
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97 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
98 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
99 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
100 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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102 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
103 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
104 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
105 of service.
106
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107 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
108 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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109 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
110
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111The following bugs are resolved with this release:
112
113 [The release manager will add the list generated by
114 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
115
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117Version 2.26
118
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119Major new features:
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121* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
122 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
123 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
124 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
125 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
126 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
127 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
128
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129* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
130 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 131 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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132 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
133 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
134 are rendered with pango, see for example:
135 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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137* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
138 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
139 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 140
2b2ccd0c 141* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 142
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143 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
144 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
145 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 146
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147 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
148 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
149 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
150 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
151 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 152
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153 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
154 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
155 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 156
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157* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
158 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 159
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160* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
161 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
162 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
163 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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165* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
166 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
167 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
168 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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170* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
171 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
172 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
173 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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175* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
176 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
177 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 178
2b2ccd0c 179* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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180 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
181 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
182 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
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2b2ccd0c 184 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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185 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
186 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
187 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
188 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
189
190 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
191 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
192 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
193 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
194 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
195 interfaces should be used instead.
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197Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
198
199* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
200 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
201 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
202 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
203 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
204 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
205 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
206 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
207
208* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
209 removed.
210
211* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 212 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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213 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
214 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
215
216* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
217 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
218 default.
219
220 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
221 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
222 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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223 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
224 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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225
226 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
227 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
228 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
229 name service modules, to be built and installed.
230
231* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
232 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
233 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
234 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
235
236* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
237 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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239* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
240 exported by accident.
241
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242* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
243 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
244 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
245
246* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
247 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
248 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
249 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
250
251* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
252
253* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
254
255* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
256 free instead.
257
258* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
259 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
260
261* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
262 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
263
264* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
265 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
266 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
267 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
268 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
269 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
270 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
271 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
272
273* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
274 synced with the kernel:
275
276 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
277 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
278
279 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
280 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
281 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
282
283 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
284 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
285
286Changes to build and runtime requirements:
287
288* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
289 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
290 x86-32 and x86-64.)
291
7e368000 292* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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294* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
295 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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297 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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298 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
299 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
300 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 301 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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303Security related changes:
304
e14a2772 305* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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306 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
307
308* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
309 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
310
311* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
312 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
313 (CVE-2010-3192).
314
315* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
316 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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318The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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320 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
321 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
322 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
323 fields
324 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
325 (CVE-2010-3192)
326 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
327 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
328 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
329 ld.bfd is available
330 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
331 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
332 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
333 x86 and other generic code
334 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
335 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
336 incorrect
337 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
338 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
339 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
340 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
341 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
342 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
343 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
344 resolver
345 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
346 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
347 order of 0D36 and 0D37
348 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
349 chillu characters
350 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
351 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
352 receiving data
353 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
354 whitespace
355 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
356 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
357 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
358 for Peru
359 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
360 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
361 failures consistently
362 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
363 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
364 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
365 frame-pointer on i386
366 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
367 register
368 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
369 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
370 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
371 generic c code is used
372 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
373 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
374 around 4000
375 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
376 (CVE-2017-12133)
377 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
378 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
379 with -lieee
380 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
381 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
382 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
383 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
384 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
385 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
386 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
387 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
388 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
389 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
390 remove()
391 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
392 checked for errors.
393 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
394 new posix_spawn implementation
395 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
396 leads to lower CPU frequency
397 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
398 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
399 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
400 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
401 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
402 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
403 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
404 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
405 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
406 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
407 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
408 not support gethostbyname4_r
409 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
410 switching
411 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
412 arenas
413 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
414 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
415 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
416 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
417 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
418 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
419 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
420 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
421 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
422 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
423 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
424 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
425 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
426 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
427 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
428 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
429 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
430 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
431 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
432 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
433 retry value
434 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
435 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
436 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
437 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
438 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
439 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
440 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
441 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
442 [21537] libc:
443 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
444 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
445 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
446 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
447 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
448 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
449 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
450 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
451 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
452 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
453 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
454 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
455 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
456 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
457 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
458 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
459 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
460 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
461 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
462 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
463 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
464 issue on x86-64
465 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
466 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
467 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
468 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
469 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
470 construction
471 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
472 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
473 between_2_3
474 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
475 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
476 conditions
477 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
478 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
479 Hindi Locale
480 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
481 posix/sched_cpucount.c
482 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
483 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
484 locale
485 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
486 leading to relocation crash
487 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
488 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
489 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
490 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
491 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
492 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
493 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
494 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
495 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
496 locale
497 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
498 locale
499 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
500 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
501 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
502 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
503 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
504 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
505 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
506 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
507 strings
508 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
509 protector=all
510 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
511 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
512 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
513 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
514 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
515 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
516 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
517 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
518 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
519 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
520 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
521 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
522 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
523 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
524 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
525 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
526 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
527 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
528 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
529 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
530 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
531 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
532 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
533 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
534 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
535 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
536 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
537 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
538 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
539 with unicode 9.0
540 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
541 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
542 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
543 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
544 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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548
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549* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
550 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
551 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
552 Library.
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555 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 556 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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558
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559* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
560 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
561 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
562 the GNU C Library.
563
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564* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
565 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
566 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
567 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
568 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
569 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
570 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
571 will not.
572
573 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
574 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
575 many years.
576
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578 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
579 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
580
581 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
582 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
583 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
584 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
585 problem.
586
ec94343f 587* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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589 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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592 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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594 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
595 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
596 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
597 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
598 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
599 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
600 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
601 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
602 WINT_WIDTH.
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604* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
605
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606 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
607
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608 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
609 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
610 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
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612 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
613 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
614
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615 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
616 fminmagf, fminmagl.
617
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618 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
619
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622 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
623 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
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626
eb3c12c7 627 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 628 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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630* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
631 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
632
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634 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
635 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
636
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638 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
639 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
640 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
641 effects of the memory clear).
642
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643* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
644 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
645 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
646 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
647
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648* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
649 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
650 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
651 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
652 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
653 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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656 have been added.
657
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658* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
659 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
660 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
661 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
662 as large as several megabytes.
663
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665 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
666 been removed.
667
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668* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
669 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
670 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
671 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
672 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
673 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
674 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
675
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677 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
678 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
679 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
680
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682 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
683 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
684 Internet.
685
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686* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
687 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
688 They were already unimplemented.
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690* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
691 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
692 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
693 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
694
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696 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
697 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
698 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
699 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
700
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702 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
703 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
704 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
705 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
706
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708 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
709 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
710 did not reflect that.
711
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713 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
714 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
715 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
716 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
717 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
718 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
719 'gcc/config.gcc'.
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722 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
723 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
724 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
725
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727 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
728 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
729 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
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732 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
733 guarantees.
734
735* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
736 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
737 make state changes.
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740
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743 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
744 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
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748 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
749 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
750 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
751 (CVE-2015-5180)
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755 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
756 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
757 protector-all
758 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
759 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
760 before it started waiting
761 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
762 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
763 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
764 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
765 wrong type
766 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
767 library linked with pthread
768 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
769 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
770 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
771 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
772 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
773 after being __libc_memalign()'d
774 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
775 when it shouldnt
776 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
777 not
778 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
779 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
780 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
781 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
782 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
783 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
784 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
785 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
786 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
787 termination
788 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
789 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
790 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
791 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
792 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
793 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
794 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
795 causes a segmentation fault
796 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
797 linking
798 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
799 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
800 uninitialized GOT
801 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
802 versions
803 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
804 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
805 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
806 is always true.
807 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
808 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
809 modes
810 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
811 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
812 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
813 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
814 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
815 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
816 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
817 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
818 libpthread.a
819 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
820 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
821 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
822 _res_hconf
823 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
824 information.
825 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
826 penalty
827 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
828 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
829 cause transition penalty
830 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
831 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
832 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
833 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
834 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
835 mcount.oS)
836 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
837 Checking
838 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
839 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
840 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
841 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
842 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
843 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
844 multi-arch
845 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
846 (RES_USEBSTRING)
847 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
848 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
849 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
850 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
851 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
852 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
853 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
854 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
855 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
856 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
857 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
858 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
859 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
860 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
861 glibc
862 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
863 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
864 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
865 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
866 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
867 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
868 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
869 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
870 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
871 U+20AC), not same as GBK
872 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
873 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
874 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
875 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
876 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
877 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
878 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
879 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
880 RES_USE_INET6
881 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
882 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
883 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
884 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
885 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
886 wrong condition
887 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
888 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
889 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
890 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
891 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
892 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
893 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
894 clang
895 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
896 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
897 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
898 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
899 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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904 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
905 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
906 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
907 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
908 architectures.
909
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910* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
911 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
912 been included in previous releases.
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914* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
915 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
916
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917* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
918 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
919 instead of “union wait”.
920
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921* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
922 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
923 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
924 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
925 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
926 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
927 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
928
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929* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
930 API.
931
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932* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
933 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
934 drop it.
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936* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
937 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
938 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
939 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
940 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
941 extensions.
942
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943Security related changes:
944
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945* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
946 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
947 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
948
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949* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
950 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
951 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
952 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
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954* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
955 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
956 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
957
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958* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
959 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
960 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
961
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962* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
963 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
964 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
965 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
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967The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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969 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
970 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
971 of MS-DOS.
972 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
973 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
974 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
975 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
976 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
977 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
978 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
979 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
980 CLDR data
981 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
982 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
983 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
984 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
985 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
986 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
987 romanisation
988 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
989 and +/-
990 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
991 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
992 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
993 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
994 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
995 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
996 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
997 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
998 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
999 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1000 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1001 all locales
1002 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1003 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1004 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1005 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1006 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1007 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1008 execute
1009 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1010 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1011 -Wsystem-headers
1012 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1013 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1014 Romanian locale data
1015 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1016 symbol
1017 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1018 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1019 language
1020 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1021 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1022 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1023 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1024 machine
1025 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1026 description
1027 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1028 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1029 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1030 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1031 when using RTLD_NEXT
1032 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1033 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1034 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1035 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1036 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1037 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1038 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1039 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1040 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1041 Excavator core
1042 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1043 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1044 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1045 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1046 double range
1047 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1048 part zero incorrect
1049 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1050 equality tests
1051 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1052 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1053 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1054 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1055 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1056 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1057 glibc-2.22
1058 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1059 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1060 'tst-numeric.c'
1061 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1062 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1063 low part
1064 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1065 result
1066 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1067 unaligned stack
1068 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1069 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1070 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1071 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1072 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1073 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1074 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1075 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1076 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1077 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1078 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1079 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1080 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1081 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1082 modes
1083 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1084 server addresses
1085 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1086 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1087 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
1088 response to getaddrinfo
1089 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
1090 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
1091 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
1092 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
1093 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
1094 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
1095 sometimes incorrect
1096 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
1097 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
1098 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
1099 record types
1100 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
1101 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
1102 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1103 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1104 (CVE-2016-3075)
1105 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1106 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1107 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1108 resolving symbols
1109 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1110 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1111 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1112 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1113 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1114 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1115 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1116 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1117 gethosts
1118 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1119 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1120 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1121 (CVE-2016-3706)
1122 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1123 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1124 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1125 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1126 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1127 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1128 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1129 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1130 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1131 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1132 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1133 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1134 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1135 executable
1136 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1137 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1138 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1139 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1140 XPG3
1141 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1142 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1143 (CVE-2016-4429)
1144 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1145 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1146 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1147 AS not supporting AVX512
1148 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1149 sNaN argument
1150 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1151 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1152 argument
1153 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1154 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1155 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1156 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1157 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1158 eax=0x80000001
1159 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1160 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1161 subnormals
1162 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1163 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1164 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1165 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1166 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1167 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1168 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1169 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1170 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1171 input
1172 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1173 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1174 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1175 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1176 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1177 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1178 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1179 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1180 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1181 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1182 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1183 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1184 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1185 double rounding
1186 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1187 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1188 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1189 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1190 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1191 (Only arm/linux)
1192 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1193 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1194 fallbacks
1195 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1196 "invalid" exceptions
1197 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1198 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1199 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1200 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1201 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1202 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1203 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1204 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1205 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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1207Version 2.23
1208
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1209* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1210 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1211 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1212 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1213 89, 16061, and 18568.
1214
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1215* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
1216 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1217 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1218 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1219 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1220 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1221 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
1222
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1223* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1224 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1225 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1226
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1227* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1228 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1229 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1230 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1231 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1232 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1233 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1234
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1235* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1236 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1237 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1238 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1239 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 1240 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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1241 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1242 Ericsson.)
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1244* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1245 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1246 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1247 independent of the GNU C Library.
1248
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1249* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1250 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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1252* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1253 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1254 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1255 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1256 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1257 Linux kernel.
1258
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1259* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
1260 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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1262* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1263 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1264 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1265 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1266 defining their own copy.
1267
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1268* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1269 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1270 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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1272Security related changes:
1273
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1274* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1275 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1276
1277* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1278 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1279 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1280 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1281 (CVE-2015-8777)
1282
1283* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1284 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1285
1286* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1287 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
1288
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1289* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1290 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 1291 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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1293* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
1294 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1295 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1296 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1297 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1298 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1299 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1300 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1301 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1302 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1303 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1304 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1305 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1306
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1309 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1310 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1311 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1312 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1313 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1314 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1315 use `mkstemp'
1316 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1317 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1318 overflow/underflow errors
1319 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1320 overflow/underflow
1321 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1322 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1323 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1324 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1325 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1326 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1327 are not contiguous
1328 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1329 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1330 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1331 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1332 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1333 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1334 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1335 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1336 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1337 all exceptions
1338 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1339 arguments
1340 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1341 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1342 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1343 should include
1344 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1345 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1346 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1347 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1348 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1349 GNU/Linux
1350 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1351 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1352 arguments
1353 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1354 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1355 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1356 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1357 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1358 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1359 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1360 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
1361 rounding results
1362 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
1363 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
1364 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
1365 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
1366 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
1367 fails
1368 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
1369 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
1370 block boundary
1371 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
1372 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
1373 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
1374 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
1375 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
1376 4.7?
1377 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
1378 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
1379 (related to lock elision)
1380 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
1381 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
1382 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
1383 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
1384 (CVE-2015-8779)
1385 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
1386 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
1387 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
1388 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
1389 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
1390 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
1391 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
1392 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
1393 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
1394 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
1395 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
1396 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
1397 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
1398 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
1399 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
1400 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
1401 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
1402 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
1403 contains a vector instruction exception.
1404 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
1405 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
1406 locales
1407 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
1408 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
1409 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
1410 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
1411 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
1412 missing break ?
1413 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
1414 32bit processes
1415 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
1416 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
1417 infinity
1418 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
1419 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
1420 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
1421 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
1422 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
1423 be forced unloaded
1424 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
1425 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
1426 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
1427 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
1428 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
1429 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
1430 statically too large
1431 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
1432 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
1433 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
1434 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
1435 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
1436 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
1437 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
1438 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
1439 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
1440 FUTEX_SHARED
1441 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
1442 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
1443 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
1444 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
1445 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
1446 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
1447 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
1448 opendir()
1449 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
1450 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
1451 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
1452 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
1453 signgam
1454 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
1455 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
1456 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
1457 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
1458 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
1459 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
1460 dependencies
1461 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
1462 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
1463 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
1464 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
1465 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
1466 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
1467 (CVE-2015-8776)
1468 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
1469 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
1470 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
1471 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
1472 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
1473 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1474 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
1475 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
1476 contention
1477 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
1478 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
1479 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
1480 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1481 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
1482 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
1483 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
1484 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
1485 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
1486 rounding modes
1487 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
1488 ILP32
1489 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
1490 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
1491 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
1492 threshold
1493 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
1494 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
1495 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
1496 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
1497 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
1498 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
1499 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
1500 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
1501 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
1502 pthread_setaffinity_np
1503 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
1504 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
1505 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
1506 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
1507 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
1508 prelink
1509 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
1510 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
1511 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
1512 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
1513 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1514 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
1515 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
1516 bits/mathcalls.h
1517 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
1518 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
1519 for C99-based standards
1520 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
1521 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
1522 math-only
1523 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
1524 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
1525 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
1526 disabled
1527 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
1528 "inexact" exceptions
1529 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
1530 arguments
1531 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
1532 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
1533 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
1534 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
1535 rules
1536 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
1537 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
1538 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
1539 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
1540 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
1541 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
1542 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
1543 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
1544 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
1545 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
1546 from 32bit
1547 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
1548 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
1549 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
1550 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
1551 subnormals
1552 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
1553 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
1554 error on 32-bit architectures
1555 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
1556 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
1557 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
1558 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
1559 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
1560 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
1561 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
1562 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
1563 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
1564 -Os
1565 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
1566 CPU's.
1567 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
1568 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
1569 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
1570 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
1571 architectures
1572 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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1574Version 2.22
1575
1576* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1577
3df5cd98 1578 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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1579 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
1580 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
1581 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
1582 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
1583 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
1584 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
1585 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
1586 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
1587 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
1588 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
1589 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
1590 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
1591 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
1592 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
1593 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
1594 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
1595 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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1596 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
1597 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
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1599* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
1600 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
1601
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1602* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
1603 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
1604 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
1605 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
1606 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
1607 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 1608
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1609* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
1610 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
1611 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
1612 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
1613 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
1614
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1615* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
1616 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
1617 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
1618
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1619* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
1620 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
1621 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
1622 17998.
1623
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1624* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
1625 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
1626 condition in some applications.
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1627
1628* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
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1629 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
1630 pow, powf.
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1631 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
1632 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
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1633 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
1634 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 1635 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
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1636
1637* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
1638 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
1639 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
1640 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
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1641
1642* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
1643 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
1644 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
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1645
1646* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
1647 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
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1648
1649* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
1650 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
1651 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
1652
a03ba363 1653 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
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1654 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
1655 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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1657Version 2.21
1658
1659* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1660
042e1521 1661 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
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1662 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
1663 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
1664 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
1665 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
1666 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
1667 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
1668 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
1669 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
1670 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
1671 17892.
1672
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1673* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
1674 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
1675 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
1676 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
1677 intended.
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1678
1679* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
1680 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
1681 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
1682 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
1683 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
1684 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
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1686* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
1687
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1688* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
1689 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 1690 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
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1692* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
1693 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
1694 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
1695 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
1696 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
1697 effects being visible outside transactions.
1698
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1699* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
1700 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
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1702* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
1703
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1704* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
1705 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 1706 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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1707 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
1708 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
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1710* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
1711 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
1712
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1713* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
1714 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
1715 format.
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1717* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1718 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1719 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
1720
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1721* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
1722 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
1723
0d560bbf 1724* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
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1726* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
1727 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
1728 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
1729 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
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1731* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
1732 with newer versions of bison.
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1733
1734* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
1735 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
1736 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
1737 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
1738 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
1739 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
1740 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
1741 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
1742 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
1743 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
1744 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
1745 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
1746 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
1747
1748 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
1749 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
1750 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
1751 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
1752 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
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1754Version 2.20
1755
1756* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1757
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1758 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
1759 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
1760 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
1761 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
1762 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
1763 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
1764 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
1765 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
1766 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
1767 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
1768 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
1769 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
1770 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
1771 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
1772 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 1773
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1774* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1775 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
1776 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
1777 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
1778 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 1779 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
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1780 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
1781 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
1782 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
1783 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
1784
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1785* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
1786 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
1787 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
1788 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
1789 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 1790
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1791* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
1792
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1793* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1794 can be used with is 2.6.32.
1795
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1796* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
1797 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
1798 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
1799 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
1800 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
1801 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
1802
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1803* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
1804 from ports.
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1805
1806* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
1807 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
1808 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
1809 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
1810 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
1811 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
1812 test macros defined.
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1814* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
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1815
1816* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
1817 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
1818 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
1819 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
1820 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
1821 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
1822 is not built.
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1823
1824* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
1825 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
1826 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
1827 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
1828 invocation.
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1829
1830* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
1831 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
1832 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
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1833
1834* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
1835 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
1836 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
1837 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
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1838
1839* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
1840 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
1841 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
1842 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
1843 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
1844 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
1845 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
1846 additional checks.
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1847
1848* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
1849 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
1850 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
1851 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
1852 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
1853 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
1854 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
1855 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
1856 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
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1857
1858* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
1859 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
1860 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
1861 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
1862 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 1863 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
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1864
1865* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
1866 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
1867 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
1868 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
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1870Version 2.19
1871
1872* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1873
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1874 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
1875 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
1876 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
1877 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
1878 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
1879 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
1880 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
1881 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
1882 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
1883 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
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1884 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
1885 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
1886 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
1887 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
1888 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
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1889 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
1890 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
1891 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 1892
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1893* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
1894 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
1895
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1896* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
1897 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
1898 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
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1899 extension which uses __block.
1900
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1901* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
1902 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
1903 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
1904 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
1905 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
1906
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1907* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
1908 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
1909 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
1910 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
1911 if malloc fails.
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1912
1913* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
1914 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
1915 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
1916 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
1917 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
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1918
1919* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
1920 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
1921 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
1922
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1923* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
1924 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
1925 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
1926 #15856, #15857).
1927
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1928* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
1929 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
1930
82bab04b 1931* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 1932 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
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1934* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
1935
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1936* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
1937 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 1938
3e181dda 1939* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 1940
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1941* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
1942
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1943* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
1944 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
1945 for which the C library was built.
1946
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1947* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
1948 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
1949 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
1950 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
1951 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
1952 in the following circumstances:
1953
1954 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
1955
1956 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
1957 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
1958
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1959* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
1960 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
1961
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1962* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
1963 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 1964
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1965* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
1966
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1967* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
1968 transcendental functions have been introduced.
1969
8b7d57cd 1970* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
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1971
1972* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 1973
fd712ef3 1974* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 1975
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1976* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
1977 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
1978 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
1979 disable some of those declarations.
1980
7011c262 1981* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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1982 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
1983 that did nothing) has also been removed.
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1984
1985* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
1986 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
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1987
1988* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1989 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
1990 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
1991 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
1992 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
1993 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
1994 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
1995 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
1996 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
1997 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
1998 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
1999 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2000 require recompilation.
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2002Version 2.18
2003
2004* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2005
17db6e8d 2006 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
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2007 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2008 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
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2009 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2010 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2011 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2012 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2013 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2014 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2015 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2016 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2017 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2018 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2019 15755, 15759.
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2021* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2022 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2023 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2024 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2025 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2026 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 2027
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2028* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2029 #15078).
2030
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AS
2031* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2032 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 2033
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2034* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2035 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2036 destructor calls to glibc.
2037
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2038* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2039 output.
2040
2041* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2042 non-x86 architectures.
2043
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2044* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2045
2046* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2047
2048* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2049 Richard Henderson.
2050
2051* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2052
2053* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2054 Richard Henderson.
2055
2056* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2057 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2058
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2059* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2060
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TS
2061* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2062 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 2063
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2064* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2065 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 2066
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2067* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2068 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2069 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2070
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2071* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2072 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2073 attributes of a process.
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2074
2075* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2076 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2077 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2078 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2079 mutexes.
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2080
2081* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2082 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2083
2084* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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2086Version 2.17
2087
2088* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2089
80ceeaee 2090 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
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2091 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
2092 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
2093 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
2094 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
2095 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
2096 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
2097 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
2098 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
2099 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
2100 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
2101 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
2102 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2103 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2104 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 2105
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2106* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2107
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2108* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2109 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 2110
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2111* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2112 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2113
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2114* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2115
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2116* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2117 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2118 zEnterprise z196.
2119 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2120
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2121* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2122 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2123 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2124
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2125* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2126 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2127
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2128* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2129 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2130
7aab07e4 2131* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 2132 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 2133
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2134* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2135 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2136
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2137* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2138 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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2139 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2140 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 2141
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2142* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2143 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2144
85429b1a 2145* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 2146 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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2147 default.
2148
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2149* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2150 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2151 information in --help and --version output.
2152
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2153* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2154 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2155 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2156
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2157* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2158 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2159 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2160 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2161 when the mode is enabled.
2162
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2164 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2165 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2166 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2167 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2168 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2169 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
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2171* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2172 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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2174Version 2.16
2175
2176* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2177
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2178 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2179 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2180 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2181 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2182 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2183 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2184 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2185 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2186 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2187 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2188 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2189 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2190 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2191 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2192 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2193 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2194 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2195 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2196 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2197 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2198 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2199 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2200 14277, 14278.
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2203 configuring glibc with:
2204 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2205 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2206 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2207
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2209
2210 + define static_assert
2211
2212 + do not declare gets
2213
2214 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2215
2216 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2217 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2218 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2219 implementation.
8d44e150 2220
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2223 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 2224
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2225 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2226
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2227 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2228
9dc4e1fb 2229* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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2231* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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2232
2233* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2234 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2235
2236* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2237 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2238
2239* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2240 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2241 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2242 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2243 existing applications.
ffb7875d 2244
21708942 2245* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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2246 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
2247 before 2.6.
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2249* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2250 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2251 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2252
83678f76 2253* New locales: mag_IN
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2254
2255* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2256 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2257 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2258 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2259 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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2260
2261* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2262
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2263* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2264 and Will Schmidt.
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2265
2266* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2267
2268* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2269 without a previously built glibc.
2270
2271* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2272 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2273
2274* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2275 now supported for ARM processors.
2276
2277* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2278 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2279 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2280
2281* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
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2282
2283* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2284 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2285 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2286 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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2287
2288* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2289 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2290 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2291 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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2292
2293* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2294 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2295 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2296 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2297 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2298
2299* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2300 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2301 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2302 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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e80fab37 2304Version 2.15
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2307
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2308 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2309 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2310 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2311 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2312 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2313 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2314 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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2316* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
2317 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2318
2319* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2320 and support for initgroups lookups.
2321 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2322
2323* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2324 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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2325
2326* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2327 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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2329* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
2330 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 2331 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 2332
d42964a0 2333* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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2334 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2335
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2336* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
2337 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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2338 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2339
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2340* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2341 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2342
2343* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2344 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2345
2346* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2347 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2348
2349* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2350 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2351
2352* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2353 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2354
2355* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2356 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2357
2358* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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2359
2360* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
2361 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 2362
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2363* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
2364 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 2365
6b64057b 2366* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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2370* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2371
553149f6 2372 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 2373 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 2374 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 2375 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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2376 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
2377 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
2378 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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2379 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
2380 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 2381 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 2382
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2383* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
2384 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
2385 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 2386 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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2387
2388 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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2389 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
2390 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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2391 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2392
c6489db3 2393* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 2394 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 2395
72d1dddb 2396* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 2397 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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2398
2399* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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2400
2401* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
2402 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2403
2404* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
2405 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
2406 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
2407 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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2409Version 2.13
2410
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2411* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2412
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2413 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
2414 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
2415 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
2416 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
2417 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 2418
10b3bedc 2419* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 2420
ac2b484c 2421* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 2422
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2423* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
2424 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 2425 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2427Version 2.12
2428
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2429* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2430
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2431 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
2432 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
2433 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
2434 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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2435 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
2436 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
2437 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 2438 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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2439
2440* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 2441
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2442* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
2443
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2444* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
2445
2446* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
2447 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
2448 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2449
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2450* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
2451 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
2452 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
2453 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
2454 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2455
d36b9613 2456* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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2458Version 2.11
2459
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2460* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2461
2462 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
2463 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
2464 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
2465 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
2466 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
2467 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
2468
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2469* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
2470 mkostemps64
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2471 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2472
24ab9c76 2473* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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2474 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2475
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2476* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
2477 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2478
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2479* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
2480
0122f28e 2481* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 2482 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 2483 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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2485
9d36a6c4 2486 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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2487 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2488
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2489* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
2490 strstr, strcasestr.
2491 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2492
2493* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
2494 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
2495
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2496* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
2497 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2498
2499* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
2500 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2501
2502* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
2503 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
2504 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
2505 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
2506 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
2507 necessity is every process again.
2508 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2509
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2510* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
2511 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
2512
2513* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
2514 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2515
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2516* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
2517 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
2518 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2519
9dd5b8a1 2520* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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2522Version 2.10
2523
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2525
2526 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
2527 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
2528 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
2529 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
2530 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
2531
bb066545 2532* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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2533 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2534
425ce2ed 2535* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 2536 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 2537
1fdd89a7 2538* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 2539 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
1fdd89a7 2540
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2541* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
2542 now in POSIX.
77db439e 2543
1f04d005 2544* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 2545 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 2546
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2547* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
2548 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2549
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2550* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
2551 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2552
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2553* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
2554 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2555
2556* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
2557 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
2558 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2559
735be400 2560* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 2561
84aa52d7 2562* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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2563 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2564
2565* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
2566 and extend existing format specifiers.
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2567 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2568
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2570 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2571
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2573 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
2574 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
2575 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
2576 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
2577 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2580
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2582
2583 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
2584 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
2585 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
2586 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
2587 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
2588
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2590 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2591
2592* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
2593 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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2595* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
2596 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2598* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
2599 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
2600 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2601
2602* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
2603 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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2607* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 2608 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2610* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
2611 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
2612 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
2613 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2614
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2615* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
2616 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2619 Sinhala)
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2622* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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2625
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2627
2628 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
2629 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
2630 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
2631 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
2632 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
2633 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
2634 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
2635
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2640* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
2641 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
2642
2643* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
2644
2645* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
2646 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2647
2648* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
2649 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2650
2651* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
2652 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
2653 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2654
2655* Faster memset for x86-64.
2656 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
2657
2658* Faster memcpy on x86.
2659 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2660
2661* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
2662 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2664* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 2665 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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2668
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2670
2671 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
2672 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
2673 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
2674 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
2675 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
2676
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2677* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
2678 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2679
2680* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2681
2682* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
2683 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
2684 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2685
2686* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
2687 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
2688
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2690 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2691
2692* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2693
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2694* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
2695 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2696
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2697* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
2698 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2699
2700* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
2701 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
2702
2703* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2704
2705* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
2706 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2708* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
2709 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
2710 yo_NG.
2711
2712+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
2713 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2718
2719 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
2720 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
2721 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
2722 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
2723 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
2724 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
2725 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
2726 4702, 4858
2727
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2731
b21fa963 2732* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2735
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2736* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2737
2738 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
2739 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
2740 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
2741 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
2742 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
2743 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
2744 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
2745 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
2746 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
2747
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2749 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
2750 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2752* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
2753 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2754
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2757* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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2759* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
2760 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
2761 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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2763 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2764
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2766 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
2767 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
2768 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2769
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2770* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
2771 Ulrich Drepper.
2772
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2773* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
2774
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2775* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
2776 Ulrich Drepper.
2777
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2778* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
2779
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2780* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
2781 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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2784
2785* More overflow detection functions.
2786
2787* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
2788 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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2790 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
2791 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
2792 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
2793 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
2794 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
2795 by Masahide Washizawa.
2796
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2797* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
2798 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2800* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
2801 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
2802 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
2803 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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2805* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
2806 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
2807
2808* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
2809
2810* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
2811 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
2812 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
2813
2814* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
2815 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
2816
2817* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
2818 for compatibility with some other systems.
2819
2820* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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2822Version 2.3.6
2823
2824* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2825
2826 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
2827 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
2828 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
2829 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
2830 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
2831 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
2832
2833 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
2834
2835* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
2836
2837* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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2839Version 2.3.5
2840
2841* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2842
2843 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
2844 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
2845 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
2846 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
2847
2848 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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2851
2852* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
2853 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2855* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
2856 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
2857 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2858
2859* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
2860 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
2861
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2863 efficiently.
2864 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2865
2866* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
2867 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
2868 handling data.
2869
2870* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
2871 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
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2874* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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2875 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2876
2877* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
2878 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
2879 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
2880 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2881
2882* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
2883 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
2884 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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2885 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2886
2887* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
2888 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
2889 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
2890 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
2891 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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2894
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2895* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
2896 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
2897
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2898* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
2899 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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69be6aaf 2901* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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2903
2904* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
2905 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2907* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
2908 by Roland McGrath.
2909
c5af724c 2910* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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2912
2913* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
2914 RFC 3484.
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2916Version 2.3.2
2917
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2918* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
2919 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
2920 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
2921 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
2922 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
2923 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
2924 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
2925 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
2926 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
2927
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2928* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
2929 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
2930 and are now also available on the Hurd.
2931
2932* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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2934* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
2935 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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2937* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
2938 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
2939
52a16e58 2940* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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2942* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
2943 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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2945* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
2946 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
2947 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
2948 of weak definition in ld.so.
2949
2950* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
2951 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
2952
2953* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
2954 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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2958* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
2959 charsets.
2960
2961* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
2962 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 2964* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 2965 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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2967* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
2968 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 2969
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2971 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
2972 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2974* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
2975 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 2976
bb0ec5bd 2977* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 2978 implementation of regex.
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2980* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
2981 Unicode 3.2.
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2983* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
2984 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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2986* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
2987 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
2988 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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2990* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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2993* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
2994 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
2995 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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2997* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
2998 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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3000* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3001 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3002 and Ulrich Drepper.
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3004* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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3007
3008* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3009 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3010
3011* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3012 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
03a2c647 3013\f
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3014Version 2.2.5
3015
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3016* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3017 128-bit long double format.
a8ae31c2 3018
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3019* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3020 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 3021
ad2e4f18 3022* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 3023
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3024* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3025
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3026* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3027 as well.
3028
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3029* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3030 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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3031
3032* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
7d0c5823 3033\f
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3034Version 2.2.4
3035
2995f70e 3036* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 3037 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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3038
3039* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3040 support Unicode 3.1.
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3041
3042* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3043 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 3044
69d5f925 3045* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 3046
69d5f925 3047* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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3048 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3049 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3050
3051* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3052 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3053
3054* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3055 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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3056
3057* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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3059Version 2.2.3
3060
1746f2b0 3061* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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3062 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3063 in float, double, and long double format.
3064
f128331c 3065* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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3066 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3067 128-bit long double format.
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3069* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3070 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3071 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3072 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
3073
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3074* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3075 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3076 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3077
3078* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3079 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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3080
3081* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3082 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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3083
3084* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3085 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3086 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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3087
3088* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
3089 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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3090
3091* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
3092 of functions for Linux/x86.
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3093
3094* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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3096Version 2.2.2
3097
464d97ec 3098* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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3099 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
3100 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
3101 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
3102 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3103 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3104 other headers.
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3105
3106* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3107 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3108
3109* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3110 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3111 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3112 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3113
3114* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3115 locales. While
3116
3117 locale -a
3118
3119 only lists the names of the supported locales
3120
3121 locale -a --verbose
3122
3123 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3124 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
306eeae5 3125\f
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3126Version 2.2.1
3127
3128* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3129 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3130 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3131 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3132 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3133
3134 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3135
3136 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3137
3138 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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3139
3140* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3141 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3142 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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3143
3144* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3145 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3146
3147* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3148 changed from the default "C" locale.
3149
3150* The usual bug fixes.
d2defdc4 3151\f
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3152Version 2.2
3153
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3154* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3155 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3156 is in progress.
3157
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3158* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3159
793bd4d9 3160* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 3161
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3162 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3163 obviously requires a database library being available.
3164
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3165* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3166
abbffdf9 3167* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 3168
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3169* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3170 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3171
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3172* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3173
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3174* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3175 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3176 and Mark Kettenis.
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3177
3178 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3179 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3180 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 3181
a00c3ca9 3182 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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3183 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3184
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3185* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3186 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3187 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
3188
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3189* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
3190 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3191 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3192 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3193
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3194 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3195 structures for the wide character tables.
3196
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3197* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3198
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3199* The utmp daemon has been removed.
3200
3201* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3202
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3203* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3204 and Yutaka Niibe.
3205
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3206* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3207
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3208* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3209
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3210* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3211
3212* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3213
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3214* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3215
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3216* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
3217 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3218 implemented for Linux.
3219
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3220* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3221 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3222 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3223 versions.
3224
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3225* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3226 Masahide Washizawa.
3227
8f3f1e09 3228* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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3230Version 2.1.3
3231
3232* bug fixes
3233
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3234\f
3235Version 2.1.2
3236
3237* bug fixes
3238
28f540f4 3239\f
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3240Version 2.1.1
3241
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3242* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
3243
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3244* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3245
407d26b7 3246* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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3247
3248* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3249
407d26b7 3250* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 3251
407d26b7 3252* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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3253
3254* Update timezone data files.
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3256* lots of charmaps corrections
3257
3258* some new locale definitions and charmaps
3259
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3261Version 2.1
3262
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3263* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3264 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3265 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3266 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3267 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3268 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3269
c84142e8 3270* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 3271 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 3272
1fb05e3d 3273* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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3274 symbol level.
3275
3276* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3277 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 3278
cbdee279 3279* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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3280
3281* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 3282 numbers.
377a515b 3283
cbdee279 3284* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 3285
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3286* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3287 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 3288
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3289* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3290 library.
3291
e61abf83 3292* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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3293 functions from ISO C 9X.
3294
3295* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3296 real valued functions.
e61abf83 3297
a5a0310d 3298* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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3300* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3301
3302* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 3303
440d13e2 3304* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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3305
3306* Optimized string functions have been added.
3307
3308* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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3309
3310* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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3312* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3313 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3314
3315 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3316 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3317
0dee6738 3318 user system wall
48244d09 3319
0dee6738 3320 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 3321
0dee6738 3322 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 3323
0dee6738 3324 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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3326 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3327
3328 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3329
3330 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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3332 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
3333 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 3334 horribly slow.
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3336 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3337 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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3339* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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3340
3341* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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3342
3343* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3344 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3345
3346* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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3348* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
3349 Bambrough.
3350
3351* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3352 latest draft standards.
3353
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3354* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
3355
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3356* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
3357~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3360argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
3361argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
3362argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
3363argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3364argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
3365argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
3366argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
3367argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
3368argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3369argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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3370authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
3371authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
3372authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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3373backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
3374backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
3375backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
3376cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
3377cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3378cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3379cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3380cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3381cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3382capget NEW: kernel
3383capset NEW: kernel
3384carg NEW: ISO C 9x
3385cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
3386cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
3387casin NEW: ISO C 9x
3388casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3389casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3390casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3391casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3392casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3393catan NEW: ISO C 9x
3394catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3395catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3396catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3397catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3398catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3401ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3402ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3403ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3404ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3405ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3406cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
3407cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
3408cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
3409cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
3410cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
3411cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
3412clearerr_locked REMOVED
3413clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3414clog NEW: ISO C 9x
3415clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3416clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3417clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3418clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
3419clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
3420conj NEW: ISO C 9x
3421conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
3422conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
3423cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
3424cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
3425cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
3426cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
3427cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
3428cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
3429creal NEW: ISO C 9x
3430crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
3431creall NEW: ISO C 9x
3432creat64 NEW: LFS
3433csin NEW: ISO C 9x
3434csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3435csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3436csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3437csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3438csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3439csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
3440csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
3441csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
3442ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
3443ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3444ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3445ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3446ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3447ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3448des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
3449ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 3450endutxent NEW: Unix98
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3451exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3452exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3453exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3454exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
3455exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
3456exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
3457fattach NEW: STREAMS
3458fdetach NEW: STREAMS
3459fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
3460fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
3461fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
3462feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3463fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3464fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3465fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3466feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3467feof_locked REMOVED
3468feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3469ferror_locked REMOVED
3470fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3471fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3472fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3473fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3474feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3475fflush_locked REMOVED
3476ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
3477ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
3478fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
3479fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3480fileno_locked REMOVED
3481fma NEW: ISO C 9x
3482fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3483fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
3484fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
3485fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
3486fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
3487fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
3488fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
3489fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 3490fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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3491fopen64 NEW: LFS
3492fputc_locked REMOVED
3493fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3494fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3495freopen64 NEW: LFS
3496fseeko NEW: Unix98
3497fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
3498fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
3499fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
3500fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
3501ftello NEW: Unix98
3502ftello64 NEW: LFS
3503ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
3504ftw64 NEW: LFS
3505fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3506gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
3507gamma_r REMOVED
3508gammaf_r REMOVED
3509gammal_r REMOVED
3510getchar_locked REMOVED
3511getdate NEW: Unix98
3512getdate_err NEW: Unix98
3513getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
3514getmsg NEW: STREAMS
3515getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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3518getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
3519getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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3520getutxent NEW: Unix98
3521getutxid NEW: Unix98
3522getutxline NEW: Unix98
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3523glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
3524globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
3525gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
3526gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
3527grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 3528host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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3529iconv NEW: iconv
3530iconv_close NEW: iconv
3531iconv_open NEW: iconv
3532if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
3533if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
3534if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
3535if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
3536in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
3537in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
3538inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
3539isastream NEW: STREAMS
3540iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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3541key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3542key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3543key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3544key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3545key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
3546key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
3547key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
3548key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
3549key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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3550llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
3551llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3552llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3553llround NEW: ISO C 9x
3554llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3555llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3556log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
3557log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
3558log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
3559lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
3560lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3561lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3562lround NEW: ISO C 9x
3563lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3564lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3565lseek64 NEW: LFS
3566makecontext NEW: Unix98
3567mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
3568mmap64 NEW: LFS
3569moncontrol REMOVED
3570modify_ldt NEW: kernel
3571nan NEW: ISO C 9x
3572nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3573nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
3574nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
3575nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3576nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3578netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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3579nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
3580nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
3581nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3582nftw NEW: Unix98
3583nftw64 NEW: LFS
3584open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 3585passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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3586pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
3587pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
3588pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
3589pread NEW: Unix98
3590pread64 NEW: LFS
3591printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
3592printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
3593profil_counter REMOVED
3594pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
3595pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
3596ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
3597ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
3598putc_locked REMOVED
3599putchar_locked REMOVED
3600putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
3601putmsg NEW: STREAMS
3602putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 3603pututxline NEW: Unix98
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3605pwrite64 NEW: LFS
3606readdir64 NEW: LFS
3607readdir64_r NEW: LFS
3608remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
3609remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
3610remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
3611round NEW: ISO C 9x
3612roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3613roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3614rtime NEW: GNU ext.
3615scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
3616scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
3617scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
3618scandir64 NEW: LFS
3619sendfile NEW: kernel
3620setcontext NEW: Unix98
3621setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 3622setutxent NEW: Unix98
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3623sighold NEW: Unix98
3624sigignore NEW: Unix98
3625sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
3626sigrelse NEW: Unix98
3627sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
3628sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
3629sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
3630sincos NEW: GNU ext.
3631sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
3632sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
3633statfs64 NEW: LFS
3634statvfs NEW: Unix98
3635statvfs64 NEW: LFS
3636strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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3637strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3638strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3639strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 3640svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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3642svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3643swapcontext NEW: Unix98
3644tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
3645tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
3646tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
3647tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3648tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
3649tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
3650trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
3651truncate64 NEW: LFS
3652truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
3653truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
3654umount2 NEW: kernel
3655unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 3656updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 3657user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 3658utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 3659versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 3660versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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3661waitid NEW: Unix98
3662wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3663wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3664wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
3665wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3666wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
3667wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
3668wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3669wcswcs NEW: Unix98
3670wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
3671wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
3672write_profiling REMOVED
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3673xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
3674xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
3675xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
3676xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
3677xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
3678xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
3679xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
3680xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
3681xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
3682xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
3683xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
3684xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
3685xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 3686xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 3687xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 3688~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3690Version 2.0.6
3691
3692* more bug fixes
3693
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3695Version 2.0.5
3696
3697* more bug fixes
3698
3699* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
3700
3701* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
3702
3703* rewrite of cbrt function
3704
3705* update of timezone data
3706\f
3707Version 2.0.4
3708
3709* more bug fixes
3710\f
3711Version 2.0.3
3712
3713* more bug fixes
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3715Version 2.0.2
3716
3717* more bug fixes
3718
3719* add atoll function
3720
3721* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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3722
3723* fix math functions
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3725Version 2.0.1
3726
3727* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
3728
3729* dynamic loader preserves all registers
3730
3731* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
3732 the ELF dynamic loader.
3733
3734* support for parallel builds is improved
3735\f
40a4b79f 3736Version 2.0
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3738* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
3739 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
3740 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
3741
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3742* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
3743 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
3744 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
3745 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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3746 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
3747 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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3748 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
3749 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
3750 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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3751 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
3752 files in the ELF format.
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3753
3754* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
3755 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
3756
3757* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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3758 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
3759 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
3760 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
3761 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
3762 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
3763 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
3764 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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3765 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
3766 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
3767 about dynamically linked binaries.
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3769* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
3770 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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3771 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
3772 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
3773 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 3774
f7eac6eb 3775* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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3776 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
3777 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
3778 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
3779 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
3780
3781* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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3783* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
3784 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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3785 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
3786 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
3787 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
3788 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
3789 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
3790 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
3791 NSS services available.
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3793* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
3794 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
3795 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
3796
3797* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
3798 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
3799 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
3800
3801* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
3802 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
3803 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
3804 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
3805
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3806* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
3807 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
3808 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
3809
3810* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
3811 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
3812 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
3813
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3814* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
3815 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
3816
f7eac6eb 3817* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 3818 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 3819 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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3820 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
3821
3822* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
3823 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
3824 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 3825
71733723 3826* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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3827 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
3828 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
3829 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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3830 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
3831 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 3832 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 3833 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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3834
3835* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
3836 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
3837 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
3838 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
3839 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
3840 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
3841 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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3842
3843* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
3844 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
3845 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
3846 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
3847 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
3848 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
3849
3850* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
3851 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3852
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3853* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
3854 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
3855 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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3857* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
3858
3859* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
3860 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
3861 their use is discouraged.
3862
3863* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
3864 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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3866* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
3867 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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3868
3869* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
3870 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
3871
3872* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
3873 see <dirent.h>.
3874
3875* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
3876 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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3877 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
3878 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
3879 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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3880
3881* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
3882 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
3883 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
3884 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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3885
3886* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
3887 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
3888
3889* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
3890 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
3891 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
3892 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
3893 number generator.
3894
3895* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
3896 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
3897
3898* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
3899 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
3900
71733723 3901* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 3902 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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3903 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
3904 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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3906* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
3907
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3908* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
3909 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
3910 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
3911
3912* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
3913 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 3915* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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3916 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
3917 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
3918 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
3919
3920* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
3921 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
3922 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
3923 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
3924 programs already written to use it.)
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3925
3926* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
3927 constants.
3928
3929* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
3930 with 4.4 BSD.
3931
3932* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
3933 a given effective group ID.
3934
3935* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
3936 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
3937 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
3938 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
3939
3940* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 3941 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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3942 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
3943 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
3944 doing the same thing.
3945
3946* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
3947 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
3948
3949* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 3950 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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3951
3952* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
3953
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3954* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
3955 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
3956 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 3957 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 3958 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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3959
3960* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
3961 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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3962
3963* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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3964 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
3965 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
3966 function.
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3967
3968* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
3969
3970* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
3971 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
3972 strings.
3973
3974* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
3975 and writing the utmp file.
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3976
3977* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
3978 Thorsten Kukuk.
3979
3980* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
3981 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
3982 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
3983
3984* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
3985 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
3986
3987* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
3988 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
3989 specification.
3990
3991* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
3992 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
3993 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
3994 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
3995
3996* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
3997 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
3998 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
3999
4000* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4001 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4002 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4003 expression matcher.
4004
4005* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4006 functionality.
4007
4008* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4009 by Ulrich Drepper.
4010
4011* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4012
4013* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4014 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4015 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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4017Version 1.09
4018
4019* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4020
4021* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4022 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4023
4024* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4025 want to put themselves in the background.
4026
4027* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4028 run without an operating system.
4029
4030* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4031 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4032
4033* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4034 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4035
4036* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4037
4038* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4039 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4040 have YP (aka NIS).
4041
4042* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4043 conventions.
4044
4045* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4046 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4047\f
4048Version 1.08
4049
4050* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4051 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4052 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4053
4054* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4055 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4056
4057* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4058 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4059
4060* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4061
4062* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4063
4064* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4065 compatibility.
4066
4067* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4068 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4069 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4070
4071* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4072
4073* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4074 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4075 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4076
4077* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4078 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4079 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4080 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4081 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4082 on a block).
4083
4084* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4085 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4086 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4087 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
4088 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
4089 cross-compiler.
4090
4091* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
4092 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
4093\f
4094Version 1.07
4095
4096* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
4097 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
4098
4099* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
4100 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
4101 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
4102
4103* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4104 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4105 address of the last character written.
4106
4107* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4108 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4109
4110* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4111 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4112
4113* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4114 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4115 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4116 you dereference this pointer.
4117
4118* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4119 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4120
4121* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4122 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4123 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4124 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4125
4126* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4127 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4128 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4129 EAGAIN in every system call function.
4130\f
4131Version 1.06
4132
4133* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4134 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4135 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4136 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 4137 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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4138
4139* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4140
4141* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4142
4143* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4144 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4145
4146* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4147 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4148
4149* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4150 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4151
4152* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4153 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4154 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4155 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4156 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4157
4158* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4159 to the error code in `errno'.
4160
4161* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4162 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4163 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4164 malloc'd string.
4165
4166* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4167 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4168 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4169
4170* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4171 uniquely-named temporary file.
4172\f
4173Version 1.05
4174
4175* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4176 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4177 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4178
4179* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4180 characters.
4181
4182* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4183 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4184
4185* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
4186\f
4187Version 1.04
4188
4189* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4190 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4191 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4192 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4193
4194* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4195 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4196 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4197
4198* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4199 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4200
4201* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4202 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4203 made itself into a shared library.
4204
4205* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4206 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4207
4208* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4209 with limited length.
4210
4211* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4212
4213* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4214
4215* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4216
4217* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4218 function for traversing a directory tree.
4219
4220* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4221 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4222 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4223 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4224
4225* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4226 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4227
4228* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4229
4230* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4231 things to your strings.
4232
4233* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4234
4235* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4236 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4237 supporting those systems.
4238
4239* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4240 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4241 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4242 configuration files.
4243
4244* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4245 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4246
4247* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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4248 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
4249 in <strings.h>.)
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4250
4251* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4252 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4253 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4254 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4255 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4256 required storage is not available.
4257
4258* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4259 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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4260
4261* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4262 latest files released from Berkeley.
4263\f
4264----------------------------------------------------------------------
4265Copyright information:
4266
58b587c1 4267Copyright (C) 1992-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4268
4269 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
4270 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
4271 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
4272 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
4273
4274 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
4275 of this document, or of portions of it,
4276 under the above conditions, provided also that they
4277 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
4278\f
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