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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
581c785b 2Copyright (C) 1992-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
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a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.35
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10Major new features:
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12* Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
13 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
14 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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16* Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
17 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
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19* Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
20 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
21 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
22 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
23 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
24 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
25 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
26 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
27 glibc, and must be installed.
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29* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
30 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
31 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
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33 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
34 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
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36 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
37 fMxfmafNx functions.
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39* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
40 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
41 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
42 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
43 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
44 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
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46* <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
47 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
48 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
49 M_SQRT1_2f.
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51* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
52 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
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54* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
55 macro in <tgmath.h>.
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57* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
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59* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
60 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
61 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
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63* A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
64 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
65 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
66 object dependency cases.
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68* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
69 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
70 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
71 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
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73* ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
74 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
75 return value is only used for its boolean status.
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77* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
78 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
79 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
80 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
81 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
82 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
83 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
84 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
85 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
86 Restartable Sequences.
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88* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
89 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
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91* All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
92 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
93 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
94 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
95 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
96 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
97 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
98 configuration.
99
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101 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
102 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
103 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
104 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
105 huge pages.
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107* The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
108 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
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110* The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
111 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
112 address.
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114* Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
115 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
116 ABI is supported:
117
118 - or1k-linux-gnu
119
120 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
121 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
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123* A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
124 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
125 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
126 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
127 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
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129* On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
130 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
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132* The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
133 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
134 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
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136* Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
137 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
138 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
139 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
140 bounds).
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142Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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144* On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
145 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
146 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
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148* The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
149 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
150
151 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
152 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
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154 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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156* Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
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158* The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
159 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
160 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
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162* The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
163 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
164 catching coredumps and backtraces.
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166* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
167 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
168 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
169
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170Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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172* The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
173 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
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174 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
175 new dynamic loader supporing the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
176 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
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178* The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
179 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
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180 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
181 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
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182
183Security related changes:
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185 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
186 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
187 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
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189 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
190 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
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192 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
193 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
194 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
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196 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
197 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
198 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
199 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
200 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
201
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202The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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204 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
205 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
206 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
207 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
208 many dsos
209 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
210 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
211 degradation
212 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
213 loaded with dlmopen
214 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
215 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
216 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
217 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
218 ID whose lifetime has not ended
219 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
220 (CVE-2022-23219)
221 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
222 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
223 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
224 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
225 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
226 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
227 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
228 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
229 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
230 --enable-initfini-array
231 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
232 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
233 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
234 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
235 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
236 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
237 empty
238 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
239 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
240 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
241 built with ld.lld
242 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
243 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
244 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
245 2.34
246 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
247 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
248 robustness
249 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
250 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
251 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
252 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
253 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
254 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
255 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
256 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
257 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
258 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
259 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
260 file
261 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
262 only dynamic section
263 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
264 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
265 recvmsg()
266 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
267 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
268 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
269 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
270 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
271 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
272 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
273 C2X
274 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
275 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
276 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
277 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
278 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
279 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
280 globalmod1.so
281 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
282 systems with TIMESIZE=64
283 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
284 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
285 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
286 spurious NUL character on state reset
287 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
288 incorrect
289 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
290 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
291 execution test
292 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
293 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
294 hppa
295 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
296 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
297 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
298 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
299 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
300 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
301 crashes
302 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
303 binutils changes
304 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
305 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
306 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
307 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
308 is not useful
309 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
310 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
311 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
312 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
313 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
314 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
315 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
316 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
317 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
318 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
319 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
320 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
321 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
322 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
323 (CVE-2022-23218)
324 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
325 (CVE-2021-3999)
326 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
327 results (CVE-2021-3998)
328 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
329 in Systemtap probes
330 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
331 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
332 x86-64-baseline
333 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
334 with no closing ]
335 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
336 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
337 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
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342Major new features:
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344* In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
345 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
346 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
347 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
348 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
349 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
350 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
351 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
352 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
353 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
354 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
355 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
356 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
357 potentially exposing application bugs.
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359* When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
360 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
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361 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
362 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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364* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
365 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
57fb02b2 366 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
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367 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
368 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
369 Arm SVE.
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371* The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
372 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
373 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
374
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375* On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
376 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
377 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
378 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
379
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380* The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
381
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382* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
383 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
384 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
385 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
386 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
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388* On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
389 --disable-scv configure option.
390
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391* Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
392 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
393 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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394 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
395 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
396 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
397 version of 5.1.
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399* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
400 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
401 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
402 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
403 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
404 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
405 that directory.
406
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408 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
409
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410* The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
411 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
412 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
413 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
414 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
415 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
416 is currently a GNU extension.
417
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418* On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
419 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
420
60744950 421* The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
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422 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
423 although it is also present in other systems.
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425* The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
426 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
427 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
428 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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430* When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
431 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
432 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
433
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434* The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
435 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
436
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437Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
438
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439* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
440 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
441 instead.
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443* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
444 programs should use the equivalent standard function
445 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
446
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447* The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
448 programs should use the equivalent standard function
449 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
450
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451* The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
452 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
453
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454* The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
455
456* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
457 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
458 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
459 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
460 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
461 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
462 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
463 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
464 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
465 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
466 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
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469 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
470 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
471 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
472 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
473 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
474 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
475 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
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478 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
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483 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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486 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
487 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
488 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
489 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
490 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
491 upgrade or downgrade process.
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494 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
495 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
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498 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
499 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
500 no longer have any effect on malloc.
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503 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
504 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
505 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
506 this functionality back.
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509 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
510 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
511 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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514 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
515 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
516 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
517 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
518 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
519 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
520 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
521 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
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526 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
527 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
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533 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
534 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
535 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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538 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
539 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
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542 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
543 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
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548 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
549 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
550 given integer (closefrom)
551 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
552 name containing multi-byte character(s)
553 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
554 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
555 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
556 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
557 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
558 random thread
559 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
560 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
561 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
562 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
563 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
564 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
565 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
566 manual is incorrect
567 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
568 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
569 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
570 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
571 pthread_create and dlopen
572 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
573 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
574 when non-root user changes priority
575 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
576 dlopen
577 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
578 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
579 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
580 ordered correctly
581 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
582 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
583 data.
584 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
585 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
586 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
587 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
588 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
589 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
590 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
591 the right free implementation
592 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
593 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
594 shm_open to pick wrong directory
595 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
596 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
597 protector=all)
598 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
599 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
600 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
601 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
602 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
603 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
604 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
605 uninitialized
606 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
607 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
608 system calls
609 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
610 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
611 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
612 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
613 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
614 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
615 deployments
616 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
617 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
618 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
619 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
620 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
621 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
622 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
623 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
624 is present
625 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
626 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
627 protector=all
628 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
629 information for the current directory
630 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
631 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
632 dl_runtime_resolve_*
633 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
634 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
635 containers
636 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
637 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
638 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
639 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
640 INT_MAX
641 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
642 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
643 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
644 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
645 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
646 tries resolving them lazily
647 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
648 libthread_db
649 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
650 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
651 argument
652 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
653 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
654 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
655 not set ENOMEM
656 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
657 randomization
658 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
659 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
660 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
661 IS_ERR_VALUE
662 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
663 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
664 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
665 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
666 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
667 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
668 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
669 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
670 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
671 with n >= 0x80000000
672 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
673 thread never allocated anything
674 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
675 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
676 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
677 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
678 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
679 on older kernels
680 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
681 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
682 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
683 AMD64 cpus
684 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
685 terminator
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690Major new features:
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693 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
694 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
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697 to change argv[0] string.
698
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700 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
701 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
702 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
703 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
704 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
705 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
706 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
707 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
708
709* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
710 information and library search path diagnostics.
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713 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
714 larger than fit in an integer.
715
96203980 716* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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718* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
719 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
720
721 - rv32imac ilp32
722 - rv32imafdc ilp32
723 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
724
725 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
726 2.28.
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729 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
730 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
731 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
732 fortification.
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737 mallinfo2 instead.
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740 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
741 Instead, the default implementation is used.
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744 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
745 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
746 prlimit.
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749 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
750 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
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753 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
754 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
755 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
756 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
757 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
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760 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
761 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
762 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
763 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
764 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
765 loaded.
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770 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
771 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
772 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
773 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
774 perform any adjustments.
775
776* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
777 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
778 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
779 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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784
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788 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
789 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
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792 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
793 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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796 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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799 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
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804 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
805 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
806 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
807 AT_EACCESS
808 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
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811 "haswell" platform subdirectory
812 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
813 with GCC
814 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
815 stack-protector=all
816 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
817 cases
818 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
819 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
820 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
821 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
822 changing gnuc version
823 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
824 incorrect
825 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
826 bits
827 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
828 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
829 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
830 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
831 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
832 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
833 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
834 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
835 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
836 too much stack space
837 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
838 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
839 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
840 with optimization.
841 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
842 anymore
843 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
844 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
845 non-FMA4 system
846 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
847 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
848 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
849 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
850 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
851 getaddrinfo
852 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
853 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
854 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
855 fault
856 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
857 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
858 at the end of a memory mapping
859 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
860 by the caller to the kernel
861 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
862 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
863 declarations for __sigsetjmp
864 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
865 monotonic clocks
866 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
867 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
868 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
869 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
870 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
871 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
872 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
873 one element
874 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
875 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
876 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
877 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
878 lazy bound
879 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
880 PI mutexes
881 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
882 not safe
883 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
884 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
885 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
886 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
887 platform
888 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
889 startup code
890 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
891 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
892 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
893 protected
894 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
895 only since 2.31
896 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
897 locked
898 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
899 aligned
900 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
901 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
902 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
903 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
904 detection logic
905 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
906 pclose(3))
907 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
908 setup
909 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
910 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
911 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
912 work
913 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
914 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
915 [27177] dynamic-link:
916 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
917 work
918 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
919 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
920 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
921 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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930 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
931
932* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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934* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
935 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
936 Three ABIs are supported:
937
938 - arc-linux-gnu
939 - arc-linux-gnuhf
940 - arceb-linux-gnu
941
4d3a77c7 942 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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943 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
944
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945* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
946 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
947
051be01f 948* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
4d3a77c7 949 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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950 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
951 this option.
952
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953* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
954 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
955 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
956
4d3a77c7 957* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
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958 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
959 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
960
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961* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
962 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
963 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
964 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
965 libpthread.
966
bfe05aa2 967* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
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968 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
969 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
970 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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971 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
972 NULL for an invalid signal number.
973
974 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
975 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
976
325081b9 977* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
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978 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
979 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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980 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
981 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
982 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
983
984 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
985 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
986
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987* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
988 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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989 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
990 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
991 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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992 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
993 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
994 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
995 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
996 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
997 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
998 BTI compatible.
999
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1002* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1003 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1004 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1005 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1006 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1007 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1008 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
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1011 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1012 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1013 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1014 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1015 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1016 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 1017 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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1020* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1021 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1022 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1023 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1024 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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1026* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1027 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1028 was not declared in any header file.
1029
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1030* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1031 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1032 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1033 sigaction functions instead.
1034
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1036 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1037
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1038* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1039 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1040 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1041 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1042 strsignal instead.
1043
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1044* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1045 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 1046 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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1047 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1048 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1049
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1050* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1051 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1052 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1053 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1054
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1055* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1056 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1057 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1058 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1059 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1060 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1061 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1062
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1064 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1065 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1066 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1067 flavor of secure RPC.)
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1069* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1070 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1071 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1072 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1073 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1074 object, to enable the hooks.
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1076* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1077 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1078 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1079 LDAP.
1080
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1084 long double redirects.
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1086Security related changes:
1087
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1088 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1089 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1090 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1091
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1092 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1093 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1094 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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1096 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1097 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1098
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1099 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1100 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1101 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1102 TALOS-2020-1019).
1103
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1106 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1107 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1108 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1109 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1110 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1111 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1112 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1113 filtee has constructor
1114 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1115 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1116 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1117 character entities for infinity & pi
1118 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1119 segfaults in applications
1120 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1121 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
1122 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1123 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1124 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1125 function with -mlong-double-64
1126 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1127 binding
1128 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1129 ld.so.cache
1130 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1131 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1132 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1133 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1134 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1135 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1136 linker
1137 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1138 dynamically loaded dsos
1139 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1140 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1141 access
1142 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1143 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1144 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1145 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1146 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1147 stale configuration forever
1148 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1149 (CVE-2020-10029)
1150 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1151 defaults to PIE
1152 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1153 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1154 (CVE-2020-6096)
1155 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1156 on 32 bit and old kernel
1157 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1158 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1159 Occitan
1160 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1161 amount of sigset_t bytes
1162 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1163 strings
1164 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1165 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1166 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1167 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1168 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1169 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1170 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1171 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1172 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1173 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1174 size_t
1175 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1176 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1177 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1178 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1179 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1180 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1181 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1182 cpu=power9
1183 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1184 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1185 segfault
1186 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1187 exiting detached thread
1188 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1189 for x32
1190 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1191 ERANGE
1192 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1193 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1194 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1195 dependencies in audit mode
1196 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1197 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1198 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1199 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1200 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1201 input
1202 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1203 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1204 preserve r2
1205 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1206 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1207 variables
1208 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1209 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1210 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1211 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1212 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1213 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1214 corruption in memset
1215
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1217Version 2.31
1218
1219Major new features:
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1221* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1222 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1223 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1224 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1225 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1226 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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1228* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1229 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1230 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1231 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1232
69ca4b54 1233* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 1234 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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1235 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1236
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1237* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1238
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1239* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1240 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1241 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1242 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1243 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1244 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1245 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1246 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1247
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1250* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1251 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1252 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1253 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1254 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1255 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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1258 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1259 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1260
1261* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1262 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1263 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1264 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1265
1266* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1267 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1268 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1269 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1270 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1271 made this no longer practical.
1272
1273 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1274 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1275 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1276 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1277 release.)
1278
1279 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1280 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1281 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1282
1283 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1284 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1285 using clock_gettime instead.
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1287* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1288 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1289 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1290 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1291 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1292
1293 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1294 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1295 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1296 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1297
1298 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1299 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1300 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1301 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1302 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1303 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
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1306 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1307 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1308 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1309 offset API.
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1312 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1313 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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1316 configurations.
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1318* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1319 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1320 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1321 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1322 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
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1325 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1326 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1327 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1328 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1329 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1330 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1331 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1332
1333 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1334 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1335
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1337 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1338 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1339 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1340 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1341 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
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1344
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1347 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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1350 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1351 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
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1354
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1355 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1356 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1357
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1358 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1359 environment variable during program execution after a security
1360 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1361 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1362 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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1364The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1366 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1367 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1368 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1369 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1370 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1371 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1372 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1373 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1374 linking failure
1375 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1376 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1377 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1378 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1379 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1380 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1381 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1382 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1383 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1384 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1385 7408-2005
1386 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1387 with localedef
1388 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1389 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1390 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1391 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1392 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1393 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1394 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1395 utmp entries
1396 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1397 ABSOLUTE ABI
1398 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1399 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1400 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1401 (stringop-overflow error)
1402 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1403 functions other can lead to crashes
1404 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1405 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1406 unconditionally
1407 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1408 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1409 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1410 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1411 still can fail with an error
1412 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1413 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1414 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1415 initialized correctly
1416 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1417 -frewrite-includes
1418 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1419 value to an unsigned
1420 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1421 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1422 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1423 protection
1424 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1425 ifunc variant.
1426 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1427 al. for Clang++
1428 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1429 (Slovenian)
1430 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1431 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1432 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1433 with -std=c11
1434 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1435 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1436 part
1437 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1438 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1439 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1440 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1441 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1442 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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1446
1447Major new features:
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1449* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1450 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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1451 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1452
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1453* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1454 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1456* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1457 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1458 to the callback function.
1459
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1462* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1463 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1464 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
1465
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1466* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
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1468* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1469 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1470 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1471 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1472 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
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1474* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1475 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1476 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1477 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1478 link time reference, is gone.
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1480* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1481 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1482 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1483 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1484 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1485 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1486 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1487 the clock choice at initialization time).
1488
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1489* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1490 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1491 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
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1494
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1495* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1496 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1497 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1498 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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1500 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1501 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1502 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1503 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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1505* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1506 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1507 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1508 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1509 since glibc 2.17.
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1511* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1512 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1513
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1514* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1515 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1516
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1517* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1518 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1519
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1520* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1521 BIND_NOW flag.
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1523* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1524 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1525 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1526
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1527* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1528 header have been removed.
1529
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1530* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1531 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1532 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1533 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
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1538
1539 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1540 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1542Security related changes:
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1544 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1545 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1546 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1547 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1548 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1549 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1550 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1552 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1553 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1554 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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1558 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1559 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1560 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1561 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1562 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1563 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1564 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1565 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1566 invalid input drops valid char
1567 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1568 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1569 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1570 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1571 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1572 malloc.h.
1573 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1574 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1575 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1576 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1577 functions
1578 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1579 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1580 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1581 for long double = double
1582 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1583 long double = double
1584 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1585 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1586 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1587 long timeouts
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1589 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1590 checking for NULL.
1591 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1592 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1593 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1594 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1595 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1596 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1597 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1598 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1599 not the default "nor"
1600 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1601 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1602 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1603 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1604 compiler barriers.
1605 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1606 unnecessary librt dependencies
1607 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1608 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1609 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1610 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1611 unsorted chunk
1612 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1613 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1614 to R_SPARC_H44
1615 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1616 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1617 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1618 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1619 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1620 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1621 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1622 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1623 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1624 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1625 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1626 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1627 was not used
1628 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1629 tests
1630 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1631 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1632 time_t changes
1633 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1634 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1635 kernels and break testing
1636 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1637 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1638 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1639 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1640 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1641 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1642 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1643 -O3 -march=skylake
1644 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1645 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1646 crash
1647 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1648 linked glibc
1649 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1650 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1651 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1652 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1653 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1654 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1655 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1656 always implemented in the same library
1657 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1658 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1659 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1660 testroot
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1663Version 2.29
1664
1665Major new features:
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1668 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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1670* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1671 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1672 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1673 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1674 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1675 configured location.
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424c4f60 1677* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
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1679* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
1680 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
1681
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1682* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
1683 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1684 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1685 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1686 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1687 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1688 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1689 process actually does not use HTM).
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1691* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
1692 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1693 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1694 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1695 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1696 of the same name.
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1698* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
1699 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1700 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 1701 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
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1702 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
1703
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1704* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1705 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1706 supported:
1707 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1708 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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1710* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
1711 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1712 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1713 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1714 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1715 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1716 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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1718* As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
1719 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1720 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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1725 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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1727* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
1728 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1729 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1730 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
1731
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1733 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1734 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1735 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1736 structures.
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1739 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1740 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1741 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1742 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1743 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1744
1745 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1746 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1747 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1748 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1749 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1750
1751 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1752 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1753 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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1756
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1760 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1761
1762 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1763 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1767 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1768 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1769 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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1771 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
1772 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1773 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1774 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1775 Reported by H.J. Lu.
1776
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1777 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1778 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1779 or command injection issues in applications.
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1783 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1784 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1785 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1786 thousands
1787 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1788 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1789 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1790 --param options)
1791 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1792 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1793 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1794 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1795 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1796 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1797 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1798 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1799 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1800 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1801 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1802 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1803 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1804 pointer argument is non-NULL
1805 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1806 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1807 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1808 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1809 multithreads call popen
1810 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1811 and pthread_create fails.
1812 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1813 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1814 constructor
1815 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1816 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1817 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1818 source tree
1819 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1820 float
1821 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1822 one error
1823 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1824 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1825 linker
1826 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1827 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1828 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1829 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1830 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1831 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1832 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1833 filesystems
1834 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1835 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1836 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1837 functions
1838 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1839 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1840 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1841 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1842 have wrong type
1843 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1844 wrong type
1845 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1846 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1847 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1848 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1849 threads
1850 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1851 start.S
1852 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1853 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1854 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1855 powerpc64le
1856 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1857 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1858 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1859 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1860 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1861 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1862 strftime
1863 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1864 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1865 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1866 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1867 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1868 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1869 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1870 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1871 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1872 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1873 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1874 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1875 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1876 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1877 tcache size
1878 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1879 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1880 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1881 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1882 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1883 (CVE-2018-19591)
1884 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1885 nearest rounding mode
1886 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1887 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1888 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1889 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1890 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1891 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1892 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1893 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1894 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1895 error
1896 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1897 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1898 using GCC 8
1899 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1900 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1901 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1902 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1903 ppc64le
1904 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1905 expected result
1906 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1907 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1908 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1909 sigaltstack
1910 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1911 answers will be rejected)
1912 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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1915Version 2.28
1916
1917Major new features:
1918
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1919* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
1920 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1921 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1922 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1923 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1924 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1925 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1926 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1927 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1928 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1929 archive or binary locales.
1930
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1931* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
1932 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1933 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1934 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1935 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1936 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1937 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1938 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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1939 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
1940 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1941 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1942 validated for i686.
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1944* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
1945 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1946 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1947 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1948 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1949 field) to indicate such support is required.
1950
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1951* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1952 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1953 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1954
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1955* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1956 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1957
1958 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1959 fMxaddfNx functions.
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1961 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1962 fMxsubfNx functions.
1963
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1964 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1965 fMxmulfNx functions.
1966
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1967 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1968 fMxdivfNx functions.
1969
e607a352 1970* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 1971 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 1972 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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1973 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
1974 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 1976* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 1977 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
a1e0c5fa 1978
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1979* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
1980 patches.
1981
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1982* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
1983 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1984 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1985 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1986 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1987 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1988 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1989 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
1990
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1991* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
1992 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1993 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1994 the fstatat64 function.
1995
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1996* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1997 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1998 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1999 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2000 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2001 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2002 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2003 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2004 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2005
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2006* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2007 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2008 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2009 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2010 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2011 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2012 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2013 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2014 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2015 results in a load failure now.
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2017* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2018 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2019 <threads.h>:
2020
2021 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2022 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2023
2024 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2025 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2026
2027 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2028
2029 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2030 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2031
2032 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2033
2034 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2035
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2037
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2038* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2039 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2040 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2041
2042* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2043 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2044 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2045 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2046 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2047 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2048
2049* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2050 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2051 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2052 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2053 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2054 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2055 (Bug #1190.)
2056
2057* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2058 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2059 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2060 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2061 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2062 further explanation.
2063
2064 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2065 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2066 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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2068* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2069
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2070* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2071 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2072 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2073
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2074* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2075 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2076 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2077 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2078
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2079* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2080 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2081 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2082 for this function instead.
2083
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2084* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2085 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2086 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2087
2088* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2089 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2090 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2091 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2092
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2093* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2094 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2095 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2096 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2097 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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2099* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2100 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2101 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2102 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2103 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2104 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2105 such as libgcrypt.
2106
2107* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2108 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2109 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2110 enabled.
2111
2112* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2113 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2114 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2115
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2116* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2117 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2118 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2119 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2120 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2121 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2122
2123 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2124 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2125 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2126 behavior in a future release.
2127
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2129
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2132Security related changes:
2133
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2134 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2135 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2136 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2137 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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2139 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2140 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2141
2142 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2143 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2144 Izbyshev.
2145
2146 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2147 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2148 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2149
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2152 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2153 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2154 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2155 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2156 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2157 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2158 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2159 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2160 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2161 14651
2162 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2163 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2164 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2165 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2166 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2167 conversion is given
2168 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2169 date
2170 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2171 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2172 scope with -O1 and higher
2173 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2174 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2175 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2176 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2177 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2178 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2179 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2180 horrible machine code)
2181 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2182 last constant.
2183 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2184 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2185 symbols
2186 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2187 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2188 defined
2189 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2190 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2191 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2192 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2193 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2194 fpscr.c'
2195 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2196 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2197 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2198 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2199 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2200 the base address
2201 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2202 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2203 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2204 open_verify
2205 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2206 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2207 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2208 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2209 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2210 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2211 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2212 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2213 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2214 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2215 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2216 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2217 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2218 dlopen
2219 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2220 AT_SECURE=1
2221 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2222 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2223 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2224 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2225 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2226 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2227 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2228 for Spanish with CLDR
2229 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2230 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2231 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2232 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2233 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2234 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2235 es_BO
2236 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2237 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
2238 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2239 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2240 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2241 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2242 dlopen failures
2243 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2244 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2245 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2246 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2247 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2248 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2249 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2250 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2251 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2252 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2253 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2254 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2255 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2256 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2257 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2258 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2259 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2260 makecontext
2261 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2262 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2263 required
2264 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2265 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2266 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2267 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2268 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2269 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2270 disabled
2271 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2272 failure
2273 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2274 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2275 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2276 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2277 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2278 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2279 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2280 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2281 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2282 and libc build with -Os)
2283 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2284 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2285 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2286 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2287 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2288 that changes /etc/passwd
2289 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2290 (CVE-2018-11237)
2291 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2292 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2293 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2294 posix/regcomp.c
2295 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2296 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2297 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2298 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2299 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2300 AT_SECURE
2301 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2302 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2303 parser.c
2304 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2305 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2306 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2307 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2308 directed rounding
2309 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2310 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2311 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2312 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2313 lookup
2314 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2315 interposition
2316 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2317 DSO boundaries.
2318 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2319 <linux/time.h>
2320 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2321 checking
2322 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2323 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2324 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2325 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2326 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2327 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2328 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2329 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2330 processors
2331 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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2333\f
2334Version 2.27
2335
2336Major new features:
2337
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2338* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2339 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 2340 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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2341 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2342 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2343 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2344 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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2345 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2346 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 2347
ac817e08 2348* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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2349 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2350 H.J. Lu from Intel.
20c7b195 2351
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2352* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2353
4cf82d23 2354* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
72aa6233 2355
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2356* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2357 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2358 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2359 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2360 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2361 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2362 from a security and performance perspective.
2363
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2364* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2365 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2366 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2367 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2368
81325b12 2369* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
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2370 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2371 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2372 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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2373 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2374
a23aa5b7 2375* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 2376 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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2377 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2378 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2379 _Float128.
2380
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2381* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2382 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2383 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 2384
4bab0224 2385* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
59d2cbb1 2386
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2387* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2388 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2389 pkey_get.
2390
bad7a0c8
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2391* The copy_file_range function was added.
2392
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2393* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2394
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2395* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2396 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2397 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2398
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2399* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2400 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2401 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2402 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2403 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2404 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2405 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2406
2407 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2408 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2409 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2410 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2411 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2412 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2413 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2414
2415 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2416 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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2417 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2418 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2419 respectively.
2420
2421 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2422 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2423 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2424 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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2425
2426 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2427 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2428 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2429
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2430 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2431 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 2432 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
4378b735 2433
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2434* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2435 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2436 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2437
2438 - rv64imac lp64
2439 - rv64imafdc lp64
2440 - rv64imafdc lp64d
2441
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2442Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2443
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2444* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2445 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 2446 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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2447 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2448 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2449 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2450 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2451 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2452 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2453 fix this.
2454
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2455* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2456 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2457 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2458
2fc21aaa
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2459* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2460 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2461 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2462 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2463 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2464 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2465 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2466 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2467 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2468 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2469 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2470 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2471 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2472 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2473 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2474 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2475 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2476 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2477 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2478 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2479 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2480 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2481 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2482 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2483 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2484 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2485
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2486* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2487 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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2489* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2490 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2491 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2492 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2493 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2494 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2495 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2496
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2497* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2498 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2499 exp10l for these functions instead.
2500
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2501* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2502 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2503 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2504
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2505* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2506 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2507 ignored.
2508
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2509* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2510 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2511 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2512 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2513
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2514* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2515 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2516
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2517* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2518 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2519
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2520* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2521 programs.
2522
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2523* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2524
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2525* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2526 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2527 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2528 instead.
2529
2530 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2531 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2532 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2533 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2534 use, but predates the bits convention.
2535
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2536Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2537
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2538* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2539 subdirectory.
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2540
2541Security related changes:
2542
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2543 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2544 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2545 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2546 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2547 script.)
00cdcf5a 2548
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2549 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2550 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2551 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2552 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 2553
914c9994
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2554 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2555 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2556 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2557 of service.
2558
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2559 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2560 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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2561 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2562
37ac8e63
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2563 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2564 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2565 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2566 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2567
8a0b17e4
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2568 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2569 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2570 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2571 Qualys.
2572
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2573 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2574 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2575 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2576 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2577 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2578
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2579 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2580 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2581 current directory.
2582
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2583 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2584 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2585 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2586
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2587 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2588 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2589 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2590
71aa429b
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2591 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2592 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2593 small, instead of NULL.
2594
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2595The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2596
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2597 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2598 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2599 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2600 locale
2601 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2602 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2603 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2604 cases
2605 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2606 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2607 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2608 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2609 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2610 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2611 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2612 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2613 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2614 "Bangla"
2615 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2616 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2617 width Latin characters
2618 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2619 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2620 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2621 letters
2622 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2623 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2624 (CVE-2009-5064)
2625 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2626 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2627 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2628 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2629 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2630 if malloc succeeded
2631 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2632 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2633 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2634 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2635 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2636 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2637 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2638 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2639 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2640 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2641 U+309A
2642 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2643 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2644 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2645 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2646 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2647 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2648 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2649 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2650 for Nicaragua
2651 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2652 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2653 are not found.
2654 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2655 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2656 access
2657 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2658 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2659 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2660 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2661 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2662 __regcall calling convention
2663 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2664 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2665 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2666 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2667 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2668 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2669 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2670 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2671 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2672 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2673 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2674 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2675 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2676 locale
2677 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2678 protector=all
2679 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2680 wcwidth
2681 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2682 consistency check failures
2683 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2684 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2685 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2686 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2687 PIE
2688 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2689 locales
2690 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2691 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2692 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2693 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2694 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2695 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2696 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2697 on memory allocation failure
2698 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2699 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2700 the suspect)
2701 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2702 default (i386)
2703 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2704 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2705 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2706 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2707 instead of EAI_NODATA
2708 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2709 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2710 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2711 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2712 implementation
2713 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2714 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2715 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2716 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2717 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2718 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2719 allocation in syscall loops)
2720 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2721 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2722 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2723 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2724 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2725 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2726 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2727 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2728 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2729 occur with -O3
2730 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2731 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2732 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2733 amounts)
2734 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2735 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2736 niu_NZ
2737 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2738 checks
2739 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2740 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2741 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2742 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2743 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2744 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2745 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2746 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2747 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2748 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2749 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2750 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2751 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2752 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2753 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2754 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2755 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2756 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2757 parsing after OOM
2758 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2759 object
2760 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2761 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2762 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
2763 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2764 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2765 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 2766 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
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2767 ppc64le
2768 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2769 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2770 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2771 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2772 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2773 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2774 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2775 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2776 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2777 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2778 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2779 math_force_eval
2780 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2781 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2782 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2783 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2784 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2785 the svid compat wrapper
2786 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2787 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2788 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2789 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2790 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2791 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2792 --verbose.
2793 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2794 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2795 to 2.26
2796 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2797 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2798 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2799 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2800 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2801 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2802 (CVE-2017-15804)
2803 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2804 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2805 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2806 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2807 failure."
2808 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2809 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2810 -m32
2811 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2812 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2813 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2814 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2815 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2816 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2817 inside the ASCII printable range
2818 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2819 -mlong-double-64
2820 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2821 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2822 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2823 Internet
2824 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2825 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2826 backslash
2827 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2828 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2829 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2830 heaps in an arena
2831 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2832 networking interface
2833 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2834 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2835 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2836 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2837 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2838 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2839 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2840 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2841 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2842 order
2843 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2844 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2845 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2846 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2847 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2848 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2849 same as for Croatian
2850 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2851 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2852 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2853 for initial thread"
2854 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2855 SC_SSIZE_MAX
2856 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2857 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2858 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2859 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2860 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2861 (CVE-2017-1000408)
2862 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2863 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2864 modified in case of success
2865 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2866 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2867 success
2868 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2869 stack-protector=all
2870 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2871 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2872 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2873 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2874 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2875 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2876 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2877 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2878 adding it on top
2879 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2880 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2881 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2882 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2883 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2884 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2885 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2886 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2887 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2888 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2889 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2890 elision and tunables
2891 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2892 "invalid" exception
2893 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2894 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2895 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2896 exception
2897 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2898 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2899 power4
2900 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2901 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2902 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2903 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2904 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2905 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2906 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2907 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2908 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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2911Version 2.26
2912
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2913Major new features:
2914
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2915* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2916 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2917 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2918 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2919 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2920 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2921 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2922
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2923* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2924 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 2925 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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2926 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2927 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2928 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2929 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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2931* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2932 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2933 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 2934
2b2ccd0c 2935* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 2936
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2937 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2938 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2939 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 2940
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2941 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2942 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2943 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2944 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2945 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 2946
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2947 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2948 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2949 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 2950
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2951* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2952 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 2953
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2954* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2955 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2956 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2957 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 2958
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2959* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2960 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2961 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2962 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 2963
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2964* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2965 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2966 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2967 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 2968
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2969* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2970 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2971 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 2972
2b2ccd0c 2973* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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2974 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2975 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2976 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 2977
2b2ccd0c 2978 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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2979 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2980 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2981 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2982 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2983
2984 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2985 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2986 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2987 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2988 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2989 interfaces should be used instead.
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2991Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2992
2993* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2994 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2995 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2996 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2997 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2998 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2999 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3000 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3001
3002* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3003 removed.
3004
3005* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 3006 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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3007 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3008 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3009
3010* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3011 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3012 default.
3013
3014 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3015 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3016 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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3017 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3018 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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3019
3020 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3021 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3022 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3023 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3024
3025* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3026 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3027 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3028 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3029
3030* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3031 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 3032
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3033* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3034 exported by accident.
3035
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3036* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3037 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3038 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3039
3040* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3041 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3042 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3043 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3044
3045* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3046
3047* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3048
3049* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3050 free instead.
3051
3052* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3053 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3054
3055* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3056 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3057
3058* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3059 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3060 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3061 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3062 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3063 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3064 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3065 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3066
3067* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3068 synced with the kernel:
3069
3070 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3071 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3072
3073 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3074 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3075 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3076
3077 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3078 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3079
3080Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3081
3082* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3083 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3084 x86-32 and x86-64.)
3085
7e368000 3086* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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3088* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3089 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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3090
3091 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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3092 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3093 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3094 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 3095 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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3098
e14a2772 3099* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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3100 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3101
3102* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3103 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3104
3105* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3106 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3107 (CVE-2010-3192).
3108
3109* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3110 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
58557c22
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3111
3112The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3113
e061bd17
SP
3114 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3115 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3116 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3117 fields
3118 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3119 (CVE-2010-3192)
3120 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3121 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3122 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3123 ld.bfd is available
3124 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3125 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3126 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3127 x86 and other generic code
3128 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3129 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3130 incorrect
3131 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3132 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3133 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3134 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3135 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3136 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3137 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3138 resolver
3139 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3140 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3141 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3142 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3143 chillu characters
3144 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3145 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3146 receiving data
3147 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3148 whitespace
3149 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3150 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3151 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3152 for Peru
3153 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3154 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3155 failures consistently
3156 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3157 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3158 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3159 frame-pointer on i386
3160 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3161 register
3162 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3163 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3164 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3165 generic c code is used
3166 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3167 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3168 around 4000
3169 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3170 (CVE-2017-12133)
3171 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3172 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3173 with -lieee
3174 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3175 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3176 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3177 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3178 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3179 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3180 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3181 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3182 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3183 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3184 remove()
3185 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3186 checked for errors.
3187 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3188 new posix_spawn implementation
3189 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3190 leads to lower CPU frequency
3191 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3192 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3193 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3194 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3195 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3196 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3197 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3198 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3199 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3200 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3201 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3202 not support gethostbyname4_r
3203 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3204 switching
3205 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3206 arenas
3207 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3208 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3209 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3210 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3211 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3212 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3213 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3214 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3215 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3216 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3217 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3218 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3219 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3220 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3221 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3222 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3223 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3224 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3225 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3226 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3227 retry value
3228 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3229 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3230 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3231 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3232 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3233 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3234 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3235 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3236 [21537] libc:
3237 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3238 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3239 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3240 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3241 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3242 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3243 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3244 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3245 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3246 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3247 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3248 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3249 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3250 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3251 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3252 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3253 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3254 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3255 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3256 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3257 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3258 issue on x86-64
3259 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3260 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3261 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3262 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3263 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3264 construction
3265 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3266 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3267 between_2_3
3268 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3269 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3270 conditions
3271 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3272 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3273 Hindi Locale
3274 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3275 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3276 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3277 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3278 locale
3279 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3280 leading to relocation crash
3281 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3282 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3283 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3284 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3285 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3286 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3287 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3288 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3289 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3290 locale
3291 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3292 locale
3293 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3294 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3295 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3296 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3297 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3298 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3299 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3300 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3301 strings
3302 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3303 protector=all
3304 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3305 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
3306 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3307 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3308 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3309 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3310 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3311 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3312 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3313 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3314 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3315 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3316 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3317 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3318 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3319 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3320 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3321 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3322 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3323 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3324 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3325 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3326 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3327 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3328 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3329 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3330 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3331 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3332 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3333 with unicode 9.0
3334 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3335 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3336 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3337 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3338 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 3339
d5b396c1 3340\f
e720d3d9
CD
3341Version 2.25
3342
48789000
JM
3343* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3344 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3345 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3346 Library.
e720d3d9 3347
bf91be88
JM
3348* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3349 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 3350 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
bf91be88
JM
3351 the GNU C Library.
3352
412cb261
JM
3353* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3354 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3355 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3356 the GNU C Library.
3357
c0307377
ZW
3358* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3359 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3360 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3361 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3362 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3363 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3364 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3365 will not.
3366
3367 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3368 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3369 many years.
3370
dbab6577
ZW
3371* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3372 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3373 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3374
3375 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3376 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3377 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3378 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3379 problem.
3380
ec94343f 3381* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
c0b43536
JM
3382 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3383 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 3384
a292f45a
JM
3385* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3386 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
5b17fd0d
JM
3387 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3388 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3389 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3390 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3391 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3392 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3393 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3394 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3395 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3396 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 3397
d942e95c
JM
3398* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3399
f82a4bdb
JM
3400 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3401
423c2b9d
JM
3402 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3403 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3404 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 3405
55a38f82
JM
3406 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3407 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3408
525f8039
JM
3409 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3410 fminmagf, fminmagl.
3411
1e7c8fcc
JM
3412 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3413
29cb9293 3414 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 3415
cc6a8d74
JM
3416 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3417 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 3418
eaf5ad0b
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3419 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3420
eb3c12c7 3421 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 3422 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 3423
f3b904d9
JM
3424* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3425 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3426
cecbc796
NA
3427* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3428 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3429 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3430
ea1bd74d
ZW
3431* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3432 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3433 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3434 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3435 effects of the memory clear).
3436
b0216d3e
JM
3437* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3438 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3439 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3440 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3441
f3b904d9
JM
3442* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3443 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3444 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3445 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3446 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3447 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 3448
92dcaa3e
FW
3449* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3450 have been added.
3451
705a79f8
FW
3452* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3453 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3454 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3455 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3456 as large as several megabytes.
3457
4d728087
FW
3458* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3459 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3460 been removed.
3461
e863cce5
FW
3462* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3463 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3464 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3465 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3466 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3467 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3468 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3469
7ec47a85
FW
3470* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3471 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3472 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3473 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3474
099191b1 3475* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
FW
3476 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3477 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3478 Internet.
3479
bbe989ee
FW
3480* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3481 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3482 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 3483
b76e0659
FW
3484* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3485 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3486 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3487 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3488
3a2a1d2c
FW
3489* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3490 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3491 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3492 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3493 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3494
be728303
FW
3495* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3496 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3497 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3498 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3499 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3500
6815a33d
FW
3501* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3502 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3503 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3504 did not reflect that.
3505
022dfdce
SL
3506* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3507 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3508 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3509 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3510 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3511 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3512 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3513 'gcc/config.gcc'.
3514
23b5cae1
MG
3515* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3516 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3517 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3518 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3519
7715d3ab
SP
3520* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3521 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3522 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3523 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3524
0cea3587
SP
3525* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3526 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3527 guarantees.
3528
3529* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3530 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3531 make state changes.
3532
e720d3d9
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3533Security related changes:
3534
fc82b0a2 3535* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4d047efd
FW
3536 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3537 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3538 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 3539 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 3540
fc82b0a2
FW
3541* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3542 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3543 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3544 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3545 (CVE-2015-5180)
3546
e720d3d9
CD
3547The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3548
fdb724f9 3549 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
3550 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3551 protector-all
3552 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3553 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3554 before it started waiting
3555 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3556 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3557 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3558 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3559 wrong type
3560 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3561 library linked with pthread
3562 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3563 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3564 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3565 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3566 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3567 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3568 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3569 when it shouldnt
3570 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3571 not
3572 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3573 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3574 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3575 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3576 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3577 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3578 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3579 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3580 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3581 termination
3582 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3583 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3584 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3585 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3586 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3587 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3588 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3589 causes a segmentation fault
3590 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3591 linking
3592 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3593 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3594 uninitialized GOT
3595 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3596 versions
3597 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3598 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3599 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3600 is always true.
3601 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3602 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3603 modes
3604 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3605 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3606 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3607 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3608 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3609 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3610 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3611 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3612 libpthread.a
3613 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3614 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3615 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3616 _res_hconf
3617 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3618 information.
3619 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3620 penalty
3621 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3622 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3623 cause transition penalty
3624 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3625 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3626 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3627 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3628 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3629 mcount.oS)
3630 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3631 Checking
3632 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3633 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3634 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3635 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3636 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3637 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3638 multi-arch
3639 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3640 (RES_USEBSTRING)
3641 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3642 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3643 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3644 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3645 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3646 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3647 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3648 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3649 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3650 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3651 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3652 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3653 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3654 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3655 glibc
3656 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3657 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3658 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3659 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3660 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3661 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3662 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3663 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3664 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3665 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3666 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3667 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3668 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3669 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3670 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3671 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3672 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3673 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3674 RES_USE_INET6
3675 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3676 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3677 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3678 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3679 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3680 wrong condition
3681 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3682 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3683 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3684 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3685 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3686 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3687 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3688 clang
3689 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3690 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3691 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3692 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3693 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 3694\f
11fca961
AZ
3695Version 2.24
3696
5b4ecd3f
JM
3697* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3698 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3699 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3700 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3701 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3702 architectures.
3703
b6ebba70
MF
3704* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3705 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3706 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 3707
7584a3f9
FW
3708* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3709 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3710
b49ab5f4
FW
3711* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3712 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3713 instead of “union wait”.
3714
ced8f893
SG
3715* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3716 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3717 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3718 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3719 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3720 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3721 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3722
2ba3cfa1
FW
3723* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3724 API.
3725
b7a9b7b0
MF
3726* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3727 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3728 drop it.
6a54bcda 3729
41a359e2
RS
3730* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3731 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3732 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3733 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3734 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3735 extensions.
3736
11fca961
AZ
3737Security related changes:
3738
f5b3338d
FW
3739* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3740 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3741 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3742
4ab2ab03
FW
3743* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3744 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3745 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3746 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 3747
5171f307
FW
3748* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3749 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3750 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3751
bc779a1a
FW
3752* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3753 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3754 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3755
fab38231
FW
3756* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3757 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3758 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3759 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3760
11fca961
AZ
3761The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3762
3c4f81ec
CD
3763 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3764 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3765 of MS-DOS.
3766 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3767 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3768 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3769 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3770 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3771 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3772 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3773 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3774 CLDR data
3775 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3776 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3777 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3778 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3779 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3780 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3781 romanisation
3782 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3783 and +/-
3784 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3785 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3786 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3787 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3788 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3789 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3790 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3791 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3792 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3793 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3794 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3795 all locales
3796 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3797 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3798 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3799 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3800 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3801 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3802 execute
3803 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3804 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3805 -Wsystem-headers
3806 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3807 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3808 Romanian locale data
3809 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3810 symbol
3811 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3812 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3813 language
3814 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3815 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3816 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3817 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3818 machine
3819 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3820 description
3821 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3822 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3823 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3824 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3825 when using RTLD_NEXT
3826 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3827 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3828 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3829 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3830 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3831 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3832 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3833 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3834 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3835 Excavator core
3836 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3837 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3838 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3839 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3840 double range
3841 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3842 part zero incorrect
3843 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3844 equality tests
3845 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3846 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3847 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3848 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3849 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3850 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3851 glibc-2.22
3852 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3853 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3854 'tst-numeric.c'
3855 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3856 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3857 low part
3858 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3859 result
3860 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3861 unaligned stack
3862 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3863 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3864 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3865 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3866 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3867 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3868 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3869 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3870 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3871 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3872 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3873 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3874 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3875 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3876 modes
3877 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3878 server addresses
3879 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3880 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3881 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3882 response to getaddrinfo
3883 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3884 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3885 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3886 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3887 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3888 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3889 sometimes incorrect
3890 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3891 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3892 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3893 record types
3894 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3895 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3896 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3897 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3898 (CVE-2016-3075)
3899 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3900 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3901 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3902 resolving symbols
3903 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3904 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3905 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3906 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3907 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3908 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3909 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3910 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3911 gethosts
3912 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3913 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3914 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3915 (CVE-2016-3706)
3916 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3917 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3918 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3919 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3920 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3921 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3922 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3923 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3924 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3925 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3926 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3927 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3928 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3929 executable
3930 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3931 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3932 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3933 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3934 XPG3
3935 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3936 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3937 (CVE-2016-4429)
3938 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3939 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3940 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3941 AS not supporting AVX512
3942 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3943 sNaN argument
3944 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3945 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3946 argument
3947 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3948 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3949 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3950 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3951 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3952 eax=0x80000001
3953 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3954 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3955 subnormals
3956 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3957 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3958 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3959 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3960 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3961 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3962 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3963 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3964 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3965 input
3966 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3967 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3968 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3969 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3970 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3971 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3972 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3973 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3974 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3975 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3976 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3977 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3978 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3979 double rounding
3980 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3981 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3982 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3983 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3984 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3985 (Only arm/linux)
3986 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3987 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3988 fallbacks
3989 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3990 "invalid" exceptions
3991 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3992 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3993 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3994 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3995 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3996 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3997 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3998 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3999 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 4000\f
aeb47bbc
DM
4001Version 2.23
4002
23256f5e
MF
4003* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4004 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4005 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4006 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4007 89, 16061, and 18568.
4008
2359035a
FW
4009* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4010 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4011 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4012 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4013 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4014 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4015 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4016
8b7b7f75
MW
4017* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4018 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4019 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4020
2eecc8af
FW
4021* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4022 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4023 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4024 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4025 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4026 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4027 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4028
a62719ba
FW
4029* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4030 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4031 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4032 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4033 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 4034 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
4035 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4036 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 4037
bc148ca1
MF
4038* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4039 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4040 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4041 independent of the GNU C Library.
4042
1c70b6f1
ZW
4043* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4044 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 4045
eed3e1eb
JM
4046* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4047 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4048 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4049 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4050 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4051 Linux kernel.
4052
1efad39b
SL
4053* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4054 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 4055
d709042a
JM
4056* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4057 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4058 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4059 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4060 defining their own copy.
4061
b08b4218
JM
4062* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4063 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4064 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 4065
8f5e8b01
JM
4066Security related changes:
4067
6400ae6e
FW
4068* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4069 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4070
4071* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4072 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4073 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4074 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4075 (CVE-2015-8777)
4076
4077* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4078 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4079
4080* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4081 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4082
8f5e8b01
JM
4083* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4084 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 4085 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 4086
e9db92d3
CD
4087* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4088 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4089 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4090 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4091 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4092 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4093 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4094 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4095 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4096 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4097 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4098 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4099 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4100
ad372e29 4101The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 4102
ad372e29
AZ
4103 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4104 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4105 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4106 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4107 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4108 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4109 use `mkstemp'
4110 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4111 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
4112 overflow/underflow errors
4113 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4114 overflow/underflow
4115 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4116 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4117 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4118 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4119 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4120 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4121 are not contiguous
4122 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4123 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4124 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4125 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4126 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4127 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4128 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4129 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4130 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4131 all exceptions
4132 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4133 arguments
4134 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4135 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4136 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4137 should include
4138 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4139 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4140 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4141 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4142 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4143 GNU/Linux
4144 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4145 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4146 arguments
4147 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4148 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4149 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4150 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4151 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4152 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4153 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4154 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4155 rounding results
4156 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4157 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4158 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4159 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4160 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4161 fails
4162 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4163 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4164 block boundary
4165 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4166 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4167 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4168 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4169 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4170 4.7?
4171 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4172 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4173 (related to lock elision)
4174 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4175 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4176 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4177 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4178 (CVE-2015-8779)
4179 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4180 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4181 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4182 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4183 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4184 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4185 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4186 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4187 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4188 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4189 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4190 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4191 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4192 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4193 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4194 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4195 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4196 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4197 contains a vector instruction exception.
4198 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4199 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4200 locales
4201 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4202 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4203 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4204 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4205 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4206 missing break ?
4207 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4208 32bit processes
4209 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4210 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4211 infinity
4212 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4213 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4214 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4215 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4216 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4217 be forced unloaded
4218 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4219 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4220 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4221 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4222 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4223 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4224 statically too large
4225 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4226 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4227 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4228 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4229 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4230 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4231 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4232 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4233 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4234 FUTEX_SHARED
4235 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4236 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4237 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4238 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4239 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4240 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4241 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4242 opendir()
4243 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4244 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4245 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4246 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4247 signgam
4248 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4249 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4250 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4251 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4252 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4253 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4254 dependencies
4255 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4256 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4257 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4258 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4259 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4260 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4261 (CVE-2015-8776)
4262 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4263 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4264 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4265 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4266 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4267 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4268 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4269 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4270 contention
4271 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4272 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4273 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4274 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4275 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4276 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4277 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4278 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4279 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4280 rounding modes
4281 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4282 ILP32
4283 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4284 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4285 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4286 threshold
4287 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4288 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4289 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4290 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4291 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4292 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4293 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4294 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4295 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4296 pthread_setaffinity_np
4297 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4298 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4299 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4300 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4301 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4302 prelink
4303 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4304 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4305 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4306 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4307 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4308 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4309 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4310 bits/mathcalls.h
4311 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4312 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4313 for C99-based standards
4314 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4315 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4316 math-only
4317 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4318 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4319 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4320 disabled
4321 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4322 "inexact" exceptions
4323 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4324 arguments
4325 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4326 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4327 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4328 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4329 rules
4330 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4331 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4332 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4333 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4334 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4335 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4336 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4337 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4338 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4339 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4340 from 32bit
4341 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4342 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4343 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4344 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4345 subnormals
4346 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4347 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4348 error on 32-bit architectures
4349 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4350 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4351 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4352 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4353 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4354 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4355 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4356 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4357 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4358 -Os
4359 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4360 CPU's.
4361 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4362 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4363 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4364 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4365 architectures
4366 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
aeb47bbc 4367\f
1c7a4a51
JM
4368Version 2.22
4369
4370* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4371
3df5cd98 4372 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
4373 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4374 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4375 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4376 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4377 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4378 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4379 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4380 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4381 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4382 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4383 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4384 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4385 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4386 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4387 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4388 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4389 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
4390 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4391 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 4392
f7fba805
SL
4393* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4394 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4395
2959eda9
AS
4396* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4397 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4398 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4399 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4400 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4401 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 4402
42261ad7
FW
4403* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4404 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4405 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4406 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4407 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4408
afcd9480
AM
4409* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4410 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4411 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4412
4a4839c9
AO
4413* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4414 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4415 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4416 17998.
4417
b13b96ca
AS
4418* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4419 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4420 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
4421
4422* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
4423 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4424 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
4425 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4426 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
4427 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4428 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 4429 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
4430
4431* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4432 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4433 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4434 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
4435
4436* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4437 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4438 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
4439
4440* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4441 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
4442
4443* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4444 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4445 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4446
a03ba363 4447 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
4448 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4449 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 4450\f
58b930ae
SP
4451Version 2.21
4452
4453* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4454
042e1521 4455 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
4456 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4457 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4458 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4459 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4460 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4461 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4462 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4463 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4464 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4465 17892.
4466
46d54873
FW
4467* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4468 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4469 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4470 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4471 intended.
042e1521
CD
4472
4473* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4474 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4475 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4476 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4477 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4478 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 4479
522e6ee3
CLT
4480* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4481
d3b00f46
AZ
4482* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4483 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 4484 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 4485
8d2c0a59
AZ
4486* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4487 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4488 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4489 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4490 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4491 effects being visible outside transactions.
4492
dc400d7b
RE
4493* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4494 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 4495
0f9dfe04
L
4496* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4497
a39208bd
CD
4498* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4499 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 4500 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
4501 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4502 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 4503
a5357b7c
JL
4504* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4505 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4506
e54db0ea
AM
4507* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4508 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4509 format.
11e3417a 4510
4863355a
JM
4511* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4512 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4513 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4514
a4ecc9eb
JM
4515* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4516 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4517
0d560bbf 4518* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
4519
4520* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4521 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4522 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4523 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
4524
4525* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4526 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
4527
4528* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4529 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4530 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4531 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4532 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4533 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4534 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4535 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4536 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4537 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4538 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4539 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4540 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4541
4542 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4543 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4544 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4545 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4546 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 4547\f
d5b396c1
AM
4548Version 2.20
4549
4550* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4551
6a9350c8
JM
4552 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4553 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4554 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4555 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4556 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4557 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4558 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4559 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4560 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4561 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4562 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4563 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4564 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4565 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4566 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 4567
95ee7fb1
SL
4568* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4569 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4570 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4571 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4572 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 4573 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
4574 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4575 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4576 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4577 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4578
0961f7e1
JL
4579* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4580 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4581 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4582 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4583 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 4584
f940b965
RE
4585* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4586
d0f5b3f8
JM
4587* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4588 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4589
d6fe5e58
JM
4590* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4591 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4592 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4593 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4594 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4595 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4596
464263cc
JM
4597* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4598 from ports.
c941736c
JM
4599
4600* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4601 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4602 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4603 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4604 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4605 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4606 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
4607
4608* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
4609
4610* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4611 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4612 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4613 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4614 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4615 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4616 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
4617
4618* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4619 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4620 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4621 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4622 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
4623
4624* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4625 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4626 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
4627
4628* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4629 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4630 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4631 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
4632
4633* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4634 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4635 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4636 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4637 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4638 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4639 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4640 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
4641
4642* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4643 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4644 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4645 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4646 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4647 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4648 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4649 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4650 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
4651
4652* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4653 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4654 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4655 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4656 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 4657 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
4658
4659* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4660 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4661 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4662 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
4663\f
4664Version 2.19
4665
4666* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4667
fd2f9486
JM
4668 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4669 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4670 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4671 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4672 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4673 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4674 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4675 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4676 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4677 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
4678 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4679 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4680 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4681 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4682 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
4683 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4684 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4685 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 4686
11520a57
CD
4687* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4688 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4689
2fe16229
CD
4690* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4691 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4692 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
4693 extension which uses __block.
4694
303e567a
SP
4695* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4696 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4697 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4698 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4699 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4700
141f3a77
SP
4701* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4702 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4703 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4704 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4705 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
4706
4707* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4708 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4709 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4710 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4711 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
4712
4713* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4714 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4715 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4716
ba0d798c
WN
4717* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4718 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4719 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4720 #15856, #15857).
4721
7cbcdb36
SP
4722* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4723 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4724
82bab04b 4725* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 4726 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 4727
c5f840fd
MB
4728* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4729
3e181dda
CD
4730* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4731 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 4732
3e181dda 4733* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 4734
8a05c252
CL
4735* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4736
6055173a
JM
4737* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4738 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4739 for which the C library was built.
4740
b125d3e5
JM
4741* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4742 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4743 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4744 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4745 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4746 in the following circumstances:
4747
4748 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4749
4750 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4751 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4752
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4753* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4754 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4755
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CD
4756* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4757 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 4758
ffb89e53
AO
4759* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4760
5d29ccce
SP
4761* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4762 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4763
8b7d57cd 4764* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
4765
4766* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 4767
fd712ef3 4768* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 4769
c688b419
JM
4770* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4771 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4772 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4773 disable some of those declarations.
4774
7011c262 4775* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
4776 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4777 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
4778
4779* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4780 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
4781
4782* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4783 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4784 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4785 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4786 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4787 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4788 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4789 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4790 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4791 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4792 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4793 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4794 require recompilation.
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4795\f
4796Version 2.18
4797
4798* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4799
17db6e8d 4800 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
4801 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4802 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
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4803 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4804 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4805 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4806 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4807 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4808 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4809 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4810 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4811 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4812 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4813 15755, 15759.
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4814
4815* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4816 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4817 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4818 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4819 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4820 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 4821
5b535ac4
AS
4822* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4823 #15078).
4824
1cef1b19
AS
4825* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4826 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 4827
55e4107b
SP
4828* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4829 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4830 destructor calls to glibc.
4831
e5c74c63
SP
4832* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4833 output.
4834
4835* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4836 non-x86 architectures.
4837
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4838* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4839
4840* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4841
4842* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4843 Richard Henderson.
4844
4845* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4846
4847* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4848 Richard Henderson.
4849
4850* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4851 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4852
8cfdb7e0
SP
4853* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4854
57267616
TS
4855* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4856 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 4857
c204ab28
SP
4858* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4859 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 4860
0748546f
PE
4861* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4862 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4863 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4864
61dd6208
SP
4865* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4866 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4867 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
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4868
4869* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4870 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4871 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4872 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4873 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
4874
4875* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4876 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4877
4878* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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4879\f
4880Version 2.17
4881
4882* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4883
80ceeaee 4884 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
4885 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4886 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4887 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4888 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4889 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4890 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4891 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4892 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4893 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4894 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4895 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4896 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4897 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4898 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 4899
95b4f1b6
SE
4900* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4901
14bc93a9
JL
4902* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4903 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 4904
b54eb3cb
JM
4905* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4906 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4907
7e2bd01f
MS
4908* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4909
08f43f9b
AK
4910* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4911 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4912 zEnterprise z196.
4913 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4914
84b3fd84
FW
4915* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4916 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4917 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4918
815e6fa3
GB
4919* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4920 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4921
400726de
MK
4922* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4923 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4924
7aab07e4 4925* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 4926 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 4927
15d0da8c
WS
4928* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4929 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4930
3cc3ef96
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4931* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4932 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
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4933 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4934 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 4935
b54eb3cb
JM
4936* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4937 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4938
85429b1a 4939* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 4940 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
4941 default.
4942
b54eb3cb
JM
4943* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4944 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4945 information in --help and --version output.
4946
050af9c4
SP
4947* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4948 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4949 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4950
89a3ad0b
AO
4951* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4952 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4953 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4954 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4955 when the mode is enabled.
4956
6e6249d0
RM
4957* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4958 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4959 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4960 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4961 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4962 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4963 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 4964
d9286582
NK
4965* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4966 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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4967\f
4968Version 2.16
4969
4970* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4971
a8133e19
JM
4972 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4973 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4974 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4975 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4976 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4977 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4978 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4979 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4980 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4981 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4982 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4983 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4984 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4985 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4986 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4987 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4988 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4989 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4990 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4991 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4992 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4993 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4994 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 4995
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L
4996* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4997 configuring glibc with:
4998 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 4999 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
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5000 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5001
380d7e87
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5002* ISO C11 support:
5003
5004 + define static_assert
5005
5006 + do not declare gets
5007
5008 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5009
5010 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5011 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5012 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5013 implementation.
8d44e150 5014
74033a25 5015 + timespec_get added
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5016
5017 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 5018
ac097f5c
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5019 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5020
16dd419d
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5021 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5022
9dc4e1fb 5023* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
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5024
5025* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
5026
5027* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5028 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
5029
5030* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5031 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
5032
5033* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5034 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5035 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5036 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5037 existing applications.
ffb7875d 5038
21708942 5039* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
5040 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5041 before 2.6.
83678f76 5042
edb00e4d
RH
5043* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5044 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5045 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5046
83678f76 5047* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
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5048
5049* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5050 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5051 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5052 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5053 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
5054
5055* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5056
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
5057* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5058 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
5059
5060* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5061
5062* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5063 without a previously built glibc.
5064
5065* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5066 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5067
5068* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5069 now supported for ARM processors.
5070
5071* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5072 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5073 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5074
5075* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
5076
5077* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5078 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5079 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5080 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
5081
5082* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5083 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5084 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5085 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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5086
5087* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5088 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5089 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5090 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5091 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5092
5093* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5094 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5095 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5096 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 5097\f
e80fab37 5098Version 2.15
11988f8f 5099
c0244a9d
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5100* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5101
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5102 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5103 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5104 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5105 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5106 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5107 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5108 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 5109
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5110* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5111 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
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5112
5113* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5114 and support for initgroups lookups.
5115 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
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5116
5117* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5118 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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5119
5120* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5121 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 5122
fc2ee42a
LD
5123* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5124 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 5125 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 5126
d42964a0 5127* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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5128 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5129
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5130* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5131 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
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5132 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5133
c55fbd1e
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5134* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5135 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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5136
5137* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5138 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5139
5140* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5141 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
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5142
5143* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5144 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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5145
5146* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5147 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5148
5149* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5150 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5151
5152* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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5153
5154* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5155 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 5156
f0b264f1
AZ
5157* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5158 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 5159
6b64057b 5160* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 5161\f
dded88cd 5162Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 5163
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5164* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5165
553149f6 5166 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 5167 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 5168 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 5169 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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5170 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5171 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5172 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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5173 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5174 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 5175 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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5177* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5178 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5179 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 5180 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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5181
5182 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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5183 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5184 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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5185 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5186
c6489db3 5187* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 5188 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 5189
72d1dddb 5190* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 5191 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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5193* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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5195* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5196 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5198* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5199 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5200 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5201 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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5204
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5206
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5207 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5208 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5209 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5210 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5211 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 5212
10b3bedc 5213* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 5214
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5217* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5218 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 5219 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5221Version 2.12
5222
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5224
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5225 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5226 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5227 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5228 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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5229 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5230 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5231 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 5232 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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5234* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 5235
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5236* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5237
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5238* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5239
5240* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5241 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5242 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5243
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5244* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5245 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5246 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5247 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5248 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5249
d36b9613 5250* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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5253
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5255
5256 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5257 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5258 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5259 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5260 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5261 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5262
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5263* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5264 mkostemps64
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5265 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5266
24ab9c76 5267* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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5268 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5269
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5270* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5271 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5272
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5273* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5274
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9d36a6c4 5276 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 5277 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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5279
9d36a6c4 5280 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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5281 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5282
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5283* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5284 strstr, strcasestr.
5285 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5286
5287* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5288 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5289
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5290* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5291 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5292
5293* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5294 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5295
5296* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5297 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5298 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5299 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5300 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5301 necessity is every process again.
5302 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5303
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5304* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5305 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5306
5307* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5308 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5309
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5310* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5311 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5312 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5313
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5317
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5318* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5319
5320 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5321 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5322 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5323 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5324 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5325
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5327 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5328
425ce2ed 5329* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 5330 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 5331
1fdd89a7 5332* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 5333 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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5335* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5336 now in POSIX.
77db439e 5337
1f04d005 5338* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 5339 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5341* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5342 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5343
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5344* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5345 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5346
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5347* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5348 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5349
5350* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5351 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5352 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5353
735be400 5354* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 5355
84aa52d7 5356* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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5357 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5358
5359* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5360 and extend existing format specifiers.
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5361 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5362
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5363* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5364 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5365
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5366* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5367 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5368 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5369 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5370 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5371 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5373Version 2.9
5374
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5375* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5376
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5377 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5378 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5379 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5380 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5381 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
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5384 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5385
5386* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5387 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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5389* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5390 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5392* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5393 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5394 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5395
5396* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5397 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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5400
5401* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 5402 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5404* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5405 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5406 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5407 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5408
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5409* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5410 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5412* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5413 Sinhala)
48b22986 5414 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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5416* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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5418Version 2.8
5419
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5420* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5421
5422 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5423 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5424 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5425 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5426 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5427 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5428 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5429
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77751669 5432* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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5433
5434* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5435 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5436
5437* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5438
5439* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5440 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5441
5442* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5443 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5444
5445* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5446 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5447 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5448
5449* Faster memset for x86-64.
5450 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5451
5452* Faster memcpy on x86.
5453 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5454
5455* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5456 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5458* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 5459 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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5462
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5463* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5464
5465 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5466 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5467 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5468 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5469 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5470
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5471* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5472 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5473
5474* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5475
5476* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5477 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5478 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5479
5480* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5481 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5482
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5484 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5485
5486* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5487
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5488* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5489 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5490
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5491* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5492 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5493
5494* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5495 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5496
5497* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5498
5499* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5500 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5502* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5503 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5504 yo_NG.
5505
5506+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5507 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5511* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5512
5513 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5514 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5515 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5516 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5517 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5518 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5519 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5520 4702, 4858
5521
bce20b9a 5522* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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5525
b21fa963 5526* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5529
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5530* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5531
5532 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5533 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5534 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5535 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5536 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5537 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5538 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5539 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5540 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5541
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5543 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5544 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5546* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5547 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5548
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5551* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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5554 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5555 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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5558
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5560 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5561 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5562 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5565 Ulrich Drepper.
5566
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5567* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5568
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5569* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5570 Ulrich Drepper.
5571
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5572* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
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5575 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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5578
5579* More overflow detection functions.
5580
5581* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5582 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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5584 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5585 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5586 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5587 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5588 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5589 by Masahide Washizawa.
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5591* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5592 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5593
5594* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5595 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5596 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5597 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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5599* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5600 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5601
5602* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5603
5604* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5605 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5606 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5607
5608* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5609 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5610
5611* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5612 for compatibility with some other systems.
5613
5614* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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5616Version 2.3.6
5617
5618* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5619
5620 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5621 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5622 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5623 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5624 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5625 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5626
5a82c748 5627 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5628
5629* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5630
5631* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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5633Version 2.3.5
5634
5635* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5636
5637 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5638 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5639 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5640 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5641
5a82c748 5642 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5644Version 2.3.4
5645
5646* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5647 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5648
5649* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5650 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5651 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5652
5653* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5654 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5655
0325dd20 5656* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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5657 efficiently.
5658 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5659
5660* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5661 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5662 handling data.
5663
5664* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5665 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 5666 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5667
5668* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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5669 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5670
5671* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5672 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5673 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5674 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5675
5676* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5677 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5678 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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5679 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5680
5681* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5682 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5683 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5684 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5685 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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5687Version 2.3.3
5688
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5689* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5690 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5691
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5692* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5693 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 5694
69be6aaf 5695* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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5696 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5697
5698* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5699 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5700
5701* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5702 by Roland McGrath.
5703
c5af724c 5704* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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5705 and Ulrich Drepper.
5706
5707* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5708 RFC 3484.
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5710Version 2.3.2
5711
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5712* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5713 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5714 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5715 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5716 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5717 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5718 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5719 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5720 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5721
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5722* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5723 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5724 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5725
5726* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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5727
5728* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5729 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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5731* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5732 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5733
52a16e58 5734* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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5736* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5737 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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5738
5739* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5740 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5741 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5742 of weak definition in ld.so.
5743
5744* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5745 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5746
5747* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5748 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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37fb1084 5751
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5752* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5753 charsets.
5754
5755* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5756 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 5757
bb0ec5bd 5758* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 5759 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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5760
5761* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5762 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 5763
bb0ec5bd 5764* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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5765 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5766 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5767
5768* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5769 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 5770
bb0ec5bd 5771* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 5772 implementation of regex.
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5773
5774* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5775 Unicode 3.2.
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5777* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5778 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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5780* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5781 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5782 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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5783
5784* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 5785 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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5786
5787* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5788 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5789 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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5790
5791* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5792 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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5793
5794* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5795 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5796 and Ulrich Drepper.
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5797
5798* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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5800Version 2.2.6
5801
5802* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5803 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5804
5805* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5806 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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5808Version 2.2.5
5809
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5810* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5811 128-bit long double format.
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5813* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5814 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 5815
ad2e4f18 5816* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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5818* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5819
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5820* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5821 as well.
5822
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5823* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5824 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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5825
5826* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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5828Version 2.2.4
5829
2995f70e 5830* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 5831 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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5832
5833* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5834 support Unicode 3.1.
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5835
5836* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5837 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 5838
69d5f925 5839* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 5840
69d5f925 5841* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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5842 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5843 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5844
5845* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5846 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5847
5848* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5849 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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5850
5851* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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5853Version 2.2.3
5854
1746f2b0 5855* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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5856 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5857 in float, double, and long double format.
5858
f128331c 5859* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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5860 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5861 128-bit long double format.
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5863* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5864 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5865 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5866 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5867
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5868* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5869 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5870 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5871
5872* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5873 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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5874
5875* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5876 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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5878* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5879 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5880 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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5881
5882* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5883 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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5884
5885* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5886 of functions for Linux/x86.
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5887
5888* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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5890Version 2.2.2
5891
464d97ec 5892* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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5893 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5894 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5895 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5896 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5897 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5898 other headers.
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5900* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5901 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5902
5903* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5904 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5905 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5906 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5907
5908* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5909 locales. While
5910
5911 locale -a
5912
5913 only lists the names of the supported locales
5914
5915 locale -a --verbose
5916
5917 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5918 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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5920Version 2.2.1
5921
5922* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5923 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5924 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5925 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5926 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5927
5928 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5929
5930 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5931
5932 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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5933
5934* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5935 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5936 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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5938* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5939 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5940
5941* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5942 changed from the default "C" locale.
5943
5944* The usual bug fixes.
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5947
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5948* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5949 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5950 is in progress.
5951
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5952* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5953
793bd4d9 5954* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 5955
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5956 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5957 obviously requires a database library being available.
5958
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5959* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5960
abbffdf9 5961* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5963* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5964 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5965
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5966* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5967
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5968* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5969 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5970 and Mark Kettenis.
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5971
5972 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5973 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5974 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 5975
a00c3ca9 5976 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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5977 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5978
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5979* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5980 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5981 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5982
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5983* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5984 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5985 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5986 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5987
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5988 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5989 structures for the wide character tables.
5990
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5991* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5992
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5993* The utmp daemon has been removed.
5994
5995* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5996
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5997* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5998 and Yutaka Niibe.
5999
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6000* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6001
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6002* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6003
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6004* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6005
6006* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6007
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6008* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6009
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6010* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6011 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6012 implemented for Linux.
6013
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6014* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6015 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6016 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6017 versions.
6018
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6019* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6020 Masahide Washizawa.
6021
8f3f1e09 6022* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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6024Version 2.1.3
6025
6026* bug fixes
6027
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6029Version 2.1.2
6030
6031* bug fixes
6032
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6034Version 2.1.1
6035
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6036* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6037
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6038* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6039
407d26b7 6040* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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6041
6042* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6043
407d26b7 6044* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 6045
407d26b7 6046* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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6047
6048* Update timezone data files.
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6050* lots of charmaps corrections
6051
6052* some new locale definitions and charmaps
6053
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6056
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6057* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6058 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6059 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6060 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6061 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6062 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6063
c84142e8 6064* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 6065 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 6066
1fb05e3d 6067* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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6069
6070* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
6071 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
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cbdee279 6073* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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6074
6075* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 6076 numbers.
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cbdee279 6078* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
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6080* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6081 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 6082
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6083* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6084 library.
6085
e61abf83 6086* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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6087 functions from ISO C 9X.
6088
6089* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6090 real valued functions.
e61abf83 6091
a5a0310d 6092* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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6094* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6095
6096* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 6097
440d13e2 6098* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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6100* Optimized string functions have been added.
6101
6102* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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6103
6104* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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6106* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6107 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6108
6109 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6110 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6111
0dee6738 6112 user system wall
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0dee6738 6114 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 6115
0dee6738 6116 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 6117
0dee6738 6118 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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6120 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6121
6122 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6123
6124 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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6127 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 6128 horribly slow.
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6130 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6131 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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6133* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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6135* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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6136
6137* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6138 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6139
6140* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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6142* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6143 Bambrough.
6144
6145* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6146 latest draft standards.
6147
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6149
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6151~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 6152addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 6153alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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6155argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6156argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6157argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6158argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6159argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6160argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6161argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6162argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6163argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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6165authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6166authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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6168backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6169backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6170cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
6171cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6172cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6173cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6174cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6175cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6176capget NEW: kernel
6177capset NEW: kernel
6178carg NEW: ISO C 9x
6179cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
6180cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
6181casin NEW: ISO C 9x
6182casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6183casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6184casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6185casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6186casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6187catan NEW: ISO C 9x
6188catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6189catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6190catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6191catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6192catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 6193cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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6194ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
6195ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6196ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6197ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6198ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6199ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6200cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
6201cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
6202cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
6203cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
6204cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6205cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6206clearerr_locked REMOVED
6207clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6208clog NEW: ISO C 9x
6209clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6210clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6211clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6212clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
6213clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
6214conj NEW: ISO C 9x
6215conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
6216conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
6217cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
6218cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
6219cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
6220cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
6221cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6222cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6223creal NEW: ISO C 9x
6224crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6225creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6226creat64 NEW: LFS
6227csin NEW: ISO C 9x
6228csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6229csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6230csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6231csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6232csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6233csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
6234csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6235csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6236ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
6237ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6238ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6239ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6240ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6241ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6242des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6243ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6244endutxent NEW: Unix98
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6245exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6246exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6247exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6248exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6249exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6250exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6251fattach NEW: STREAMS
6252fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6253fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
6254fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
6255fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
6256feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6257fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6258fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6259fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6260feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6261feof_locked REMOVED
6262feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6263ferror_locked REMOVED
6264fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6265fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6266fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6267fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6268feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6269fflush_locked REMOVED
6270ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
6271ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
6272fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
6273fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6274fileno_locked REMOVED
6275fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6276fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6277fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6278fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6279fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6280fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6281fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6282fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6283fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 6284fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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6285fopen64 NEW: LFS
6286fputc_locked REMOVED
6287fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6288fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6289freopen64 NEW: LFS
6290fseeko NEW: Unix98
6291fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
6292fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
6293fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6294fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
6295ftello NEW: Unix98
6296ftello64 NEW: LFS
6297ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6298ftw64 NEW: LFS
6299fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6300gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6301gamma_r REMOVED
6302gammaf_r REMOVED
6303gammal_r REMOVED
6304getchar_locked REMOVED
6305getdate NEW: Unix98
6306getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6307getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6308getmsg NEW: STREAMS
6309getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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6311getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6312getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6313getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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6314getutxent NEW: Unix98
6315getutxid NEW: Unix98
6316getutxline NEW: Unix98
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6317glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6318globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6319gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6320gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6321grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 6322host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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6323iconv NEW: iconv
6324iconv_close NEW: iconv
6325iconv_open NEW: iconv
6326if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6327if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6328if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6329if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6330in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6331in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6332inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6333isastream NEW: STREAMS
6334iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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6335key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6336key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6337key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6338key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6339key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6340key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6341key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6342key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6343key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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6344llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6345llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6346llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6347llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6348llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6349llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6350log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6351log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6352log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6353lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6354lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6355lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6356lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6357lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6358lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6359lseek64 NEW: LFS
6360makecontext NEW: Unix98
6361mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6362mmap64 NEW: LFS
6363moncontrol REMOVED
6364modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6365nan NEW: ISO C 9x
6366nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6367nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6368nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6369nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6370nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6371netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6372netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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6373nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6374nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6375nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6376nftw NEW: Unix98
6377nftw64 NEW: LFS
6378open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 6379passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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6380pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
6381pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6382pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6383pread NEW: Unix98
6384pread64 NEW: LFS
6385printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6386printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6387profil_counter REMOVED
6388pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6389pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6390ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6391ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6392putc_locked REMOVED
6393putchar_locked REMOVED
6394putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6395putmsg NEW: STREAMS
6396putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 6397pututxline NEW: Unix98
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6398pwrite NEW: Unix98
6399pwrite64 NEW: LFS
6400readdir64 NEW: LFS
6401readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6402remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6403remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6404remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6405round NEW: ISO C 9x
6406roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6407roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6408rtime NEW: GNU ext.
6409scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6410scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6411scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6412scandir64 NEW: LFS
6413sendfile NEW: kernel
6414setcontext NEW: Unix98
6415setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 6416setutxent NEW: Unix98
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6417sighold NEW: Unix98
6418sigignore NEW: Unix98
6419sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6420sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6421sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6422sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6423sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6424sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6425sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6426sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6427statfs64 NEW: LFS
6428statvfs NEW: Unix98
6429statvfs64 NEW: LFS
6430strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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6431strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6432strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6433strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 6434svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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6435svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6436svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6437swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6438tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6439tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6440tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6441tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6442tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6443tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
6444trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
6445truncate64 NEW: LFS
6446truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6447truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6448umount2 NEW: kernel
6449unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 6450updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 6451user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6452utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 6453versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 6454versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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6455waitid NEW: Unix98
6456wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6457wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6458wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6459wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6460wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6461wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6462wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6463wcswcs NEW: Unix98
6464wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6465wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6466write_profiling REMOVED
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6468xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6469xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6470xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6471xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6472xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6473xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6474xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6475xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6476xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6477xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6478xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6479xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 6480xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 6481xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
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6484Version 2.0.6
6485
6486* more bug fixes
6487
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6489Version 2.0.5
6490
6491* more bug fixes
6492
6493* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6494
6495* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6496
6497* rewrite of cbrt function
6498
6499* update of timezone data
6500\f
6501Version 2.0.4
6502
6503* more bug fixes
6504\f
6505Version 2.0.3
6506
6507* more bug fixes
c84142e8 6508\f
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6509Version 2.0.2
6510
6511* more bug fixes
6512
6513* add atoll function
6514
6515* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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6517* fix math functions
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6519Version 2.0.1
6520
6521* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6522
6523* dynamic loader preserves all registers
6524
6525* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6526 the ELF dynamic loader.
6527
6528* support for parallel builds is improved
6529\f
40a4b79f 6530Version 2.0
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6532* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6533 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6534 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
6535
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6536* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6537 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6538 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6539 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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6540 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6541 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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6542 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6543 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6544 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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6545 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6546 files in the ELF format.
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6547
6548* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6549 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6550
6551* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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6552 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6553 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6554 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6555 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6556 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6557 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6558 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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6559 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6560 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6561 about dynamically linked binaries.
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6563* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6564 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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6565 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6566 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6567 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 6568
f7eac6eb 6569* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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6570 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6571 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6572 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6573 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6574
6575* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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6577* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6578 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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6579 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6580 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6581 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6582 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6583 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6584 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6585 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 6586
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6587* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6588 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6589 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6590
6591* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6592 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6593 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6594
6595* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6596 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6597 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6598 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6599
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6600* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6601 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6602 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6603
6604* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6605 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6606 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6607
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6608* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6609 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6610
f7eac6eb 6611* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 6612 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 6613 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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6614 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6615
6616* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6617 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6618 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 6619
71733723 6620* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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6621 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6622 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6623 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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6624 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6625 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 6626 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 6627 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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6628
6629* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6630 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6631 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6632 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6633 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6634 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6635 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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6636
6637* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6638 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6639 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6640 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6641 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6642 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6643
6644* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6645 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6646
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6647* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6648 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6649 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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6651* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6652
6653* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6654 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6655 their use is discouraged.
6656
6657* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6658 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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6660* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6661 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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6662
6663* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6664 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6665
6666* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6667 see <dirent.h>.
6668
6669* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6670 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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6672 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6673 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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6674
6675* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6676 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6677 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6678 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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6679
6680* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6681 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6682
6683* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6684 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6685 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6686 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6687 number generator.
6688
6689* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6690 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6691
6692* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6693 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6694
71733723 6695* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 6696 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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6698 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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6700* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6701
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6703 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6704 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6705
6706* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6707 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 6709* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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6710 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6711 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6712 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6713
6714* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6715 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6716 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6717 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6718 programs already written to use it.)
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6719
6720* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6721 constants.
6722
6723* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6724 with 4.4 BSD.
6725
6726* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6727 a given effective group ID.
6728
6729* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6730 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6731 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6732 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6733
6734* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 6735 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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6736 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6737 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6738 doing the same thing.
6739
6740* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6741 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6742
6743* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 6744 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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6745
6746* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6747
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6748* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6749 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6750 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 6751 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 6752 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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6753
6754* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6755 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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6756
6757* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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6758 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6759 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6760 function.
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6761
6762* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6763
6764* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6765 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6766 strings.
6767
6768* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6769 and writing the utmp file.
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6770
6771* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6772 Thorsten Kukuk.
6773
6774* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6775 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6776 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6777
6778* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6779 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6780
6781* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6782 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6783 specification.
6784
6785* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6786 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6787 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6788 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6789
6790* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6791 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6792 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6793
6794* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6795 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6796 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6797 expression matcher.
6798
6799* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6800 functionality.
6801
6802* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6803 by Ulrich Drepper.
6804
6805* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6806
6807* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6808 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6809 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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6811Version 1.09
6812
6813* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6814
6815* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6816 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6817
6818* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6819 want to put themselves in the background.
6820
6821* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6822 run without an operating system.
6823
6824* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6825 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6826
6827* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6828 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6829
6830* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6831
6832* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6833 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6834 have YP (aka NIS).
6835
6836* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6837 conventions.
6838
6839* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6840 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6841\f
6842Version 1.08
6843
6844* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6845 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6846 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6847
6848* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6849 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6850
6851* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6852 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6853
6854* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6855
6856* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6857
6858* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6859 compatibility.
6860
6861* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6862 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6863 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6864
6865* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6866
6867* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6868 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6869 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6870
6871* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6872 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6873 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6874 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6875 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6876 on a block).
6877
6878* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6879 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6880 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6881 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6882 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6883 cross-compiler.
6884
6885* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6886 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6887\f
6888Version 1.07
6889
6890* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6891 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6892
6893* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6894 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6895 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6896
6897* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6898 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6899 address of the last character written.
6900
6901* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6902 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6903
6904* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6905 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6906
6907* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6908 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6909 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6910 you dereference this pointer.
6911
6912* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6913 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6914
6915* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6916 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6917 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6918 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6919
6920* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6921 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6922 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6923 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6924\f
6925Version 1.06
6926
6927* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6928 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6929 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6930 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 6931 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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6932
6933* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6934
6935* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6936
6937* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6938 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6939
6940* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6941 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6942
6943* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6944 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6945
6946* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6947 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6948 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6949 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6950 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6951
6952* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6953 to the error code in `errno'.
6954
6955* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6956 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6957 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6958 malloc'd string.
6959
6960* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6961 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6962 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6963
6964* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6965 uniquely-named temporary file.
6966\f
6967Version 1.05
6968
6969* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6970 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6971 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6972
6973* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6974 characters.
6975
6976* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6977 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6978
6979* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6980\f
6981Version 1.04
6982
6983* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6984 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6985 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6986 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6987
6988* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6989 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6990 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6991
6992* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6993 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6994
6995* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6996 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6997 made itself into a shared library.
6998
6999* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7000 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7001
7002* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7003 with limited length.
7004
7005* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7006
7007* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7008
7009* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7010
7011* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7012 function for traversing a directory tree.
7013
7014* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7015 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7016 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7017 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7018
7019* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7020 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7021
7022* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7023
7024* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7025 things to your strings.
7026
7027* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7028
7029* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7030 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7031 supporting those systems.
7032
7033* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7034 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7035 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7036 configuration files.
7037
7038* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7039 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7040
7041* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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7042 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7043 in <strings.h>.)
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7044
7045* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7046 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7047 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7048 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7049 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7050 required storage is not available.
7051
7052* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7053 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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7054
7055* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7056 latest files released from Berkeley.
7057\f
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7060
7061 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
7062 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
7063 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
7064 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
7065
7066 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
7067 of this document, or of portions of it,
7068 under the above conditions, provided also that they
7069 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
7070\f
7071Local variables:
7072version-control: never
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